 Action-hero Vin Cooper returns in another hair-raising military thriller.
Vin Cooper #2
Bantam
April 2009
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Featuring: Vin Cooper
416 pages
ISBN: 0553805355
EAN: 9780553805352
Hardcover
$25.00
Thriller Military
In this latest internationally bestselling thriller from
David Rollins, author of The Death Trust, a
bizarre murder leads an ex–Air Force special investigator
into a shadow world of conspiracy, cover-up, and military
secrecy where the difference between friend or foe is thin
as…
A scientist meets a grisly end when he
falls from a military research ship and is attacked by a
two-ton white shark off the Japanese coast. By the time
Special Investigator Vin Cooper reaches the scene, there’s
literally very little left to prove that the death wasn’t
an accident. But Cooper’s instincts tell him that he’s
looking at murder and that in assigning him to this case
someone might just as well have shoved him, too, into
shark-infested waters.
What kind of top secret
project could the military be engaged in that would
require the services of a foremost marine biologist
and a genetic researcher? The possibilities are
ominous, but not as ominous as the truth. And then the
unthinkable tragedy that everyone feared since 9/11
explodes with a terrifying sense of déjà vu—in San
Francisco.
Suddenly, with a second scientist
presumed dead, an unidentified charred body in the morgue,
and the “accidental” parachute death of a friend in a
Florida training field, Cooper is following a trail as
narrow and as dangerous as a knife-edge—a trail that leads
to what we all fear most: a secret “government” within our
government whose sworn duty is to kill anyone who opposes
them.
Comments
4 comments posted.
Re: A Knife Edge
The topics/situations Vin Cooper gets
into seem to be serious enough. A
sense of humor is necessary to
survive. My husband is retired
military. A lot of the guys I met when
he was in were nice guys but being
politically correct wasn't high on the
list of their personality traits. In a
time of crisis, brash and cynical some
times work best. Life is serious
enough, approaching it with a sense of
humor is sometimes the only way to
hang in there.
(Patricia Barraclough 11:21pm March 17)
I haven't read any of your books, but they sound great! I like heroes who are "real" and not the Mr. Perfect macho-type.
(LuAnn Morgan 11:57am March 18)
Vin sounds like a man I need to read about! I have to check your books out!
(Kelli Jo Calvert 1:20pm March 18)
Hi, Patricia,
I've received quite a few emails like
yours since the first Vin Cooper book
was released. The character really
seems to strike a cord with the people
at the sharp end. I think that when the
going gets tough, the tough tell jokes.
Cooper's cynicism is a healthy
response to the situations he finds
himself in. A lot of the people I know
in the military handle stress in the
same way. I've always thought the
square-jawed hero who always does
and says the right thing at the right
time to be not just unrealistic, but a
little dull. I hope you read the book
and enjoy it. Incidentally, quite a few
of my readers are women. This was a
surprise to me at first. Turns out they
like the way Cooper carries himself.
He's a little bit bad but a whole lotta
fun - the kind of guy most women
would like to have a drink with and
well, who knows from there...
(David Rollins 7:10pm March 19)
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