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THE COLONEL Paperback July 2, 2002
"The Colonel is a strong, muscular thriller that confirms Davis's promise as a writer to watch. "-Jane Adams, Amazon.com |
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A former Air Force investigator comes out of retirement to find a killer, only to discover a massive government cover-up. With just two previous novels to his credit, Patrick A. Davis has become known for edge-of-your-seat military fiction. Of his first novel, The General, the Houston Chronicle proclaimed, "Davis scored a hit." And Publishers Weekly agreed that his "adrenaline-charged" second novel, The Passenger, firmly established him as "a writer with a knack for white-knuckled suspense." In The Colonel, Davis creates a new hero caught in the midst of the case of his life. Retired Air Force investigator Martin Collins lives a quiet life in rural Virginia, working as the local chief of police and consulting on military homicides. When he's called in to assist on a grisly triple murder, nothing can prepare him for the crime scene: Colonel Margaret Wildman and her two young children, their throats slashed, left to die in pools of their own blood. At first, there seems to be no motive for the murders. But as Collins digs through an increasingly puzzling maze of clues, he reveals a secret that leads to the highest levels of the government-and the military. Buried files reveal a link between Colonel Wildman and a series of fatal airline crashes; political pressure to keep a secret grows, as does the body count. Collins finds his own life jeopardized as he closes in on the truth, culminating in a shocking confrontation on the floors of Congress. |
| A former pilot who knows his way around the corridors
of power on Capitol Hill as well as the Pentagon, Patrick Davis spins
a believable yarn about the murder of an Air Force safety officer
just before she was about to blow the whistle on a fatal defect in
a popular airplane. Originally built for the Air Force, the G-626
accounts for nearly a quarter of the world's passenger fleet, but
Colonel Margaret Wildman's evidence would have grounded it and destroyed
a billion-dollar merger between Boeing and Global, the flawed plane's
manufacturer. Martin Collins, a retired Air Force investigator who
consults on military homicides, doesn't want to believe his service
was involved in the death of the colonel and her two young children,
but everything points to Wildman's immediate superior, Marcus Holland,
who may have been acting on orders from higher up in the chain of
command.
With a young special investigator who's got
her own score to settle with Holland, and Simon Santos, an enigmatic
detective whose wealth gives him entrée to the highest levels
of military and political influence, Martin finds himself in a world
of deals and deal makers even Simon can't access. Davis's skillful
pacing drives the narrative to a surprising and explosive denouement,
but long before that his complex and well-developed protagonists
engage the reader's interest and empathy. Simon's past holds a secret
that's the clue to his determination to solve this cloudy and complicated
case, and Martin is still grieving his dead wife and trying to find
his way as a single parent. The Colonel is a strong, muscular thriller
that confirms Davis's promise as a writer to watch.
The Colonel has gripping twists and turns and the
revelation of a top-level conspiracy will keep readers on edge. His third high-powered, conscientious outing confirms
that Davis (The Passenger, 1999, etc.) delivers the goods...
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