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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416549994
Edition: First Edition first Printing
ISBN: 1416549994
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: June 09, 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
Features:- ISBN13: 9781416549994
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The latest Kathryn Dance thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sleeping Doll!
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.
The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigations foremost body language expert. She and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in multiplayer online role-playing games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance's career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures...
In signature Jeffery Deaver style, Roadside Crosses is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-hangers and heartrending personal subplots. It is also a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. Roadside Crosses is the third in Deaver's bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with The Blue Nowhere and The Broken Window.
Unabridged Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 Cd of Jeffery Deaver's The Blue Nowhere!
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So much rushing around by so many characters to such little purpose. We are supposedly getting lots of information on the blogosphere, about what you might get in 1/2 an hour on, say Wikipedia. But all is given breathlessly as if it represents some type of major insight. The heroine, Dance, is apparantly some type of body language expert (I think Deaver uses a technical sounding term but I forget it). Mainly she sees dark motivations in the blinking of an eye. Somehow in the Lincoln Rhymes series I managed to ignore the vaguely ludicrous aspect of his supposed skills and their applications, in this case I cannot.
I'm not sure how this is going to turn out, I suspect powerful big-time baddies are behind it all. I expect I'll skip to the last few pages and find out.
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I read this book from my local library. It was excellent and I knew that my son-in-law would enjoy it. I bought it for him for Christmas. The vendor was great. The book was brand new at a savings of around $20.00 from the book stores and he, too, said the story was great. If anyone is interested in a story leaning towards computer hackers and bloggers, this is your cup of tea. Highly recommend it.
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oh please-could this woman be any more of a cliche of the new modern superwoman? give me a break, the author sneaks in every cliche of the PC woman...hates it when animals are tortured-who doesn't? is a young widow, rather than divorced-is this to make her more sympathetic? it makes her less believable to me...and she starts making eyes at the professor-helper as soon as she sees him, panting that he isn't wearing a wedding ring, yet she is such a total pro, meanwhile also panting about some other cop-i wanted to read the story but could not get past her...so quit after about 50 pages-
if you like your cliche superwoman cop, you will like this...
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I finally got around to reading this a few days ago. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a great look into the world of blogging and gaming and how the cyber world affects us everyday. I usually have a good idea of where a book is going, but this one surprised me at the end and that is why I gave it 5 stars. I very seldom get surprised anymore. Thanks Mr. Deaver. Keep 'em coming!
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This is the third Deaver novel I've read and I'm planning on reading many more. I did get a bit lost in his cyberworld descriptions, but overall, this is a most pleasurable read. I do feel that he's dealing with a stacked deck and doesn't really give the reader a chance to outguess him. But what the heck, his books are fun and make reading a pleasure. He is sort of easy on his characters which might make this less than great, but I still rate this reasonably high.
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