Vin Cooper returns to action in A KNIFE EDGE when he's sent
to investigate the suspicious death of Dr. Hideo Tanaka.
Tanaka and his partner, while exploring a deep sea trench
near Japan, discovered a bacterium that could be dangerous
to the entire world. Shortly thereafter, Tanaka ends up in
the belly of a Great White shark. Once Cooper arrives,
there's not much evidence left that would make it appear to
be anything but an accident, but his instincts tell him
there's something worth investigating.
Back at the Pentagon, Cooper is wrapping up his
investigation of the shark attack when terrorists attack
San Francisco. He's sent to help and discovers that one of
the victims is Tanaka's partner from his previous case. Not
long after this, Cooper is pulled away to investigate
another case, this one involving the death of a former
military friend. While all of this is going on, Cooper also
is trying to deal with his on-again/off-again relationship
with Major Anna Masters, who helped him in Rollins'
previous novel, THE DEATH TRUST.
Vin Cooper is my kind of action hero. The character
David Rollins has crafted is a wise-cracking, no-
nonsense kind of guy. Cooper is very good at his job, even
when the situations he finds himself in are not his idea of
a good time. He deals with them like a real person would --
a real person who also has really, really good luck. The
one caveat about this book is that the story jumps around a
little too much. It's not hard to follow, but by the end of
the story, you feel like maybe Vin Cooper had been put on
one too many cases and that there were maybe one too many
coincidences. Otherwise, it's a really fun, fast-paced,
action-packed read.
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.
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