Cutting edge

Cutting edge

Ward Larsen

Book - 2018

"As a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Alaska, Trey DeBolt enjoys a rewarding job with limitless adventure. His life is uprooted, however, when his helicopter goes down during a particularly harrowing rescue. Gravely injured, DeBolt awakens weeks later to severe headaches and a battered body. He remembers little about the crash. Most disconcerting of all are his surroundings--he is recovering, not in a hospital, but in a seaside cabin in Maine, thousands of miles from where the accident occurred. Only when his nurse lets slip an unfathomable bit of news does DeBolt realize the depths of his dilemma: he has been officially declared dead, lost in the crash. Half a world away, Shannon Lund realizes something is very wrong. A Coast Guard inve...stigator in Alaska, she uncovers evidence that DeBolt may still be alive. Her search quickly becomes personal, but before she can intervene, chaos erupts outside a cabin in the wilds of Maine"--From dust jacket flap.

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Subjects
United States. > Coast Guard > Fiction.
United States. > Coast Guard Investigative Service > Fiction.
Helicopters > Accidents > Fiction.
Conspiracies > Fiction.
Survival > Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Action and adventure fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Genres
Thrillers (Fiction)
Action and adventure fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Suspense fiction
Mystery fiction
Published
New York : Forge 2018.
Language
English
Main Author
Ward Larsen (author)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Physical Description
334 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN
9780765393418
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Trey DeBolt remembers being on a Coast Guard helicopter but not the aircraft's crash. He wakes up in a cabin about 3,000 miles from where the accident occurred, and the nurse tending to him will not provide the answers he seeks. As he recovers, he learns that he has been declared officially dead; meanwhile, vivid images are popping into his head of things that later prove to be amazingly accurate. When a hit squad attacks the cabin, and the nurse is shot, he is barely able to escape. As he tries to find the truth and stay alive, he slowly uncovers a secret government project in which he appears to play a key part. Readers will be intrigued with trying to decipher what is actually going on in this tantalizingly plotted thriller. Just when it appears that DeBolt has landed in a situation out of Stephen King's Misery, the story slides into the world of government conspiracy. What results is a fine thrill ride, further indication that Larsen's name on the cover of a book guarantees an engrossing read.--Ayers, Jeff Copyright 2018 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Larsen opens this high-energy thriller with the tantalizing line: "The second time he died was more difficult than the first." Petty officer Trey DeBolt, an Alaska-based Coast Guard rescue swimmer, regains consciousness in a remote seaside cottage in Maine after a horrific accident that has left him with a scar on the back of his head and no memory of how he got there. His nurse, Joan Chandler, tells him: "The surgery you had, Trey... it wasn't only to make you well. It was to make you different." Shortly afterward, DeBolt witnesses Chandler gunned down by a five-man team of trained assassins and realizes that he was the killers' real target. Thus begins a game of wits with his hunters and his dawning realization of just how "different" he has become. The plot has some truly surprising twists and turns, yet, for all the book's speed and excitement, the author also skillfully slips in some thought-provoking ideas on technology and greed. Readers will hope for a sequel. Agent: Susan Gleason, Susan Gleason Literary. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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