{"product_id":"the-first-victim-paperback","title":"The First Victim - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRidley Pearson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLieutenant Lou Boldt, the Seattle cop who stars in Ridley Pearson's deservedly popular series, is a sharp and touching figure--perhaps the most believable police officer in current fiction. Early in this ninth book about his public and private life, Lou has to put on a bullet-resistant vest to lead a raid against some dangerous criminals. \"The vest was not physically heavy, but its presence was,\" Pearson tells us. It meant battle; it meant risk. For Boldt, a vest was a symbol of youth. It had been well over a year since he had worn one. Ironically, as he approached the hangar's north door at a light run behind his own four heavily armored ERT personnel, he caught himself worrying about his hands, not his life. He didn't want to smash up his piano hands in some close quarters skirmish. . . . Boldt plays jazz piano one night a week in a local bar, and despite his concern for his hands, he takes every opportunity he can to get away from his desk and into the streets. But money pressures, caused by his wife's recent illness, also make him think about the possibility of a better-paying job in the private sector. Meanwhile, some extremely ruthless people are murdering illegal Chinese immigrant women and leaving their bodies buried in newly dug graves. An ambitious local TV journalist named Stevie McNeal and the young Chinese woman she thinks of as her \"Little Sister\" risk their lives to investigate the killings, while Boldt and his team round up a most unusual array of suspects. This combination of hard-edged realism and softer sentiment has become Pearson's trademark, and once again it works smoothly. --Dick Adler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRidley Pearson is the award-winning co-author, along with Dave Barry, of \u003cem\u003ePeter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, Peter and the Sword of Mercy, Escape From the Carnivale, Cave of the Dark Wind, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBlood Tide, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eScience Fair\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition to \u003ci\u003eKingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKingdom Keepers: Disney at Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKingdom Keepers: Disney in Shadow, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eKingdom Keepers: Power Play\u003c\/em\u003e, he is also the author of the young adult thrillers \u003ci\u003eSteel Trapp: The Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSteel Trapp: The Academy\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written more than twenty best-selling crime novels including \u003ci\u003eKiller View \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKiller Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler\/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.16 x 8.06 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47244950634745,"sku":"9781401308186","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WXA5RDZqankzRFdYL1llVWVkOFh1QT09.webp?v=1768595680","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-first-victim-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}