HARD FALL
"Hard Fall is a gripping thriller, loaded with the forensic detail we have come to expect from the author...." —Valerie Ryan, Seattle Times  READ MORE PRAISE
Ridley Pearson, author of the national best sellers Undercurrents and Probable Cause, returns with his most gripping forensic thriller yet: a masterful high-tech, high-pressure novel that will confirm his place among today's best writers of suspense.
The man who was murdered was a specialist in training pilots to fly the Duhning 959-600—a new breed of ultra-sophisticated aircraft—and he was killed in a Duhning flight simulator. Was the killer trying to be taught to pilot one of these super jets? How is this connected to Daggett's recent discovery of sophisticated altitude detonators? Is Anthony Kort—Daggett's prey—about to strike again? Using the most intricate and complex forensic techniques, the aerodynamic and technical principles that make monster jets stay aloft, and sheer cop's reasoning—Daggett picks up Kort's trail. He is joined by forensic experts, aerodynamic engineers, and criminal psychologists—but it comes down to Daggett and Daggett alone to see the pattern in the seemingly endless technical detail, and stop a tragedy before it takes place. But Kort is smart, and driven by a motivation that Daggett cannot possibly understand. And when Daggett gets close, Kort makes it personal. Hard Fall is a breathlessly paced thriller, an intellectual and technical game of cat and mouse, and a modern classic of suspense fiction.
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Praise for Hard Fall… "Ridley Pearson is back and better than ever. Hard Fall is a gripping thriller, loaded with the forensic detail we have come to expect from the author of Undercurrents and Probable Cause. FBI agent Cam Daggett has been on the trail of international trigger man and environmental terrorist, Anthony Kort, for two years. Kort is responsible for two airplane bombings, one of which killed Daggett's parents and left his son, Duncan, a paraplegic. Daggett is closing in on Kort, through one of his cohorts, when Daggett's boss opens a booby-trapped suitcase and blows himself and the link to Kort sky high. Back to the drawing board. Daggett picks up the trail when a Seattle flight instructor is found murdered at a flight simulator, and a plane crashes for no ostensible reason; deduction and forensic sleuthing point to Kort. The chase is on, and Daggett knows that he has limited time to run Kort to ground before the next crash. Pearson, who writes thrillers from his log cabin in Idaho, has constructed a complex and believable narrative, and at the same time created sympathetic and fully developed characters. With this novel, his sixth, he's hit his writerly stride." —Valerie Ryan, Seattle Times  |
                                  
  
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