Sunstroke
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Eachus stays well away from the dreary predictability that is the downfall of less successful works. The action never flags. Washington PostTen years ago Frank Boyle was a Treasury agent with a promising career, a good wife, and a bad habit that eventually lost him everything. Now hes a partner in a successful little high-tech firm called Industrial Security of Los Angeles, with no personal life to speak of, a client about to be the death of him and a new bad habit named Sarah. Sunstroke opens with three seemingly unrelated dramas: a shooting in which Frank is not considered the target, the untimely return of Sarah, and a suspicious fire in Professor Gorelicks laboratory that kills a faithful assistant and destroys four years of Nobel-caliber work. By the storys showdown, the list of crimes has run to fraud, arson, murder and attempted murder in various flavors; and the list of suspects has grown to include some of the nastiest players in the high-tech corporate world. Sunstroke is a tale of two cities. 1990s West LA, even in the grip of its worst-ever heat wave, is a cool place. The Las Vegas Strip is always hot. What both cities have in common is sunlight. And Professor Gorelicks research was based on the search of a new, cheap way to turn sunlight into energy. Sunstroke is played out on both landscapes, and both are as gritty and glitzy and dangerous and fun on the storys pages as they are in real life.What the critics say about Irv Eachus thrillers:Lots of action, a little sex and topical issues. Library Journal...exciting, well-written and unforgettable ... should keep readers turning pages well past bedtime Orlando Sentinel StarIrv Eachus lives in San Francisco. He is the author of the highly acclaimed thriller, The Raid, and is currently working on the next Frank Boyle techno-thriller, Blackout.Keeps the reader asking the ultimate question, Then what happened? Booklist
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