An exciting read Preston and Child have done it again with
their mysterious FBI Agent Pendergast and his progeny
Corrie.
WHITE FIRE begins with the rendering of a true story
of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, meeting with a
publicist, when Wilde tells Doyle a story that is so
shocking it affects Doyle for the remainder of his life.
Corrie, who is trying to write a thesis and win an award
that will give her a scholarship to finish her schooling,
is presented with an idea to go to Colorado and do forensic
research on a series of grizzly bear attacks from the 1800.
Once she arrives in town Corrie's investigation is quickly
shut down by powerful people in the small but wealthy
Colorado town. When she decides to go ahead with her
investigation she is quickly arrested and looking at
serious jail time, Agent Pendergast shows up just in time
and Corrie is allowed to proceed.
At the same time there is
an arsonist in town murdering people and burning down their
homes. Corrie goes forward with the investigation and
discovers the grizzly attacks are a series of unspeakable
murders and her life is quickly placed in danger. While at
the same time Agent Pendergast works the arson case and
researches the story Wilde told Doyle believing that it is
the key to the truth about both sets of murders.
The
parallel between the way Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock
Holmes does his investigating and the way Agent Pendergast
works is as fun reading as is the search for a lost
Sherlock story. The only disappointing part of the story
was I knew who the arsonist was the minute the character
was introduced. Still if you're a fan of Holmes or Agent
Pendergast then you will enjoy WHITE FIRE.
Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado
ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from
serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance
coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who-
-with brutal precision--begins burning down multimillion-
dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After
springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a
discovery while examining the bones of several miners who
were killed 150 years earlier by a rogue grizzly bear. Her
finding is so astonishing that it, even more than the
arsonist, threatens the resort's very existence.
Drawn deeper into the investigation, Pendergast uncovers a
mysterious connection between the dead miners and a fabled,
long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer
the key to the modern day killings as well.
Now, with the ski resort snowed in and under savage attack--
and Corrie's life suddenly in grave danger--Pendergast must
solve the enigma of the past before the town of the present
goes up in flames.
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