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Firetrap, December 2007
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Ballantine
December 2007
On Sale: November 27, 2007
320 pages ISBN: 0345462939 EAN: 9780345462930 Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
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Thriller | Suspense
No one writes with the power, authority, and poetry that
Earl Emerson has demonstrated in his action-packed novels
about fire and the people who make their living fighting
it. In Firetrap, Trey Brown is a man tormented by race, by
family, and now by a political firestorm that has erupted
because fourteen people died in an illegal Seattle
nightclub . . . and someone must take the
fall.
Captain Trey Brown is a black man in a
Seattle fire department where the color of his skin keeps
him largely on the outside looking in. As a child, Trey
was adopted by a white family whose children were bred for
wealth and power–but now Trey simply does his job, rides
his Harley, and lives in bitter solitude. Then the Z-Club
goes up in flames, killing more than a dozen people, all
of them black, and the city's African American community
demands to know: Did these people die because of their
skin color?
Jamie Estevez, the beautiful, ambitious
reporter who becomes Trey's partner in the investigation,
is everything Trey is not. Outgoing and gregarious, she
tries to bring the lone-wolf fireman back into the world.
But as their relationship heats up, Trey is forced to
relive a painful episode from his past, when he was
accused of a horrible crime and shunned by his adoptive
parents. Suddenly, two mysteries–one of passion and
family, the other of fire and murder–are unraveling around
Trey. But so is everything he has done to protect
himself. . . .
Firetrap is vintage Earl Emerson: a
gritty, emotionally charged novel set in a world of
camaraderie and urban chaos, where one man has been a
hero, a villain, and a victim–and hasn’t even faced the
deadliest danger yet.
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