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- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Number of Pages: 416
- ISBN: 1416549994
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112935701
- Release Date: June 9, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #52705 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #5432 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #1386 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Jeffery Deaver (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Roadside Crosses Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel a Kathryn Dance Novel" by Jeffery Deaver to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Roadside Crosses Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel a Kathryn Dance Novel"Browse more products related to "Jeffery Deaver"Review"[Deaver] has one of those puzzle-loving minds you just can't trust." "Deaver's expert and devious plotting makes it a challenge to stay only a couple of steps behind him." Publisher's noteWhen a troubled teenager is pushed over the edge by cyber-bullies, he plots a violent revenge for which he plants roadside crosses throughout the Monterey peninsula, a situation for which body-language expert Kathryn Dance and Monterey County Sheriff's Senior Deputy Michael O'Neil race against the clock to stop the youth from acting on his rage. The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites. The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics -- body language-expert. She and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save, some not. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance's career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures... In signature Jeffery Deaver style, "Roadside Crosses" is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-hangers and heartrending personal subplots. It is also a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. "Roadside Crosses" is the third in Deaver's bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with "The Blue Nowhere" and" The Broken Window." AnnotationBestselling author Jeffrey Deaver loads up another page-turning techno-thriller with ROADSIDE CROSSES. The plot picks up shortly after THE SLEEPING DOLL and features California Bureau investigator Kathryn Dance, who's still dealing with some of the fallout from her previous case. Now Kathryn and her crew have to negotiate the social mores of high schoolers and the nuances of the internet in order to put a stop to a killer who's forecasting his victims with roadside crosses. Travis Brigham was driving when a car accident occurred, killing the other two teenage passengers. Now kids from his school, many of whom would never say anything face-to-face, are skewering him on a blog, and Travis--who's also a big-time online role-playing gamer, is getting even. Deaver keeps the action coming fast (the book takes place across four breathless days), while managing not to fall into the trap of broadly villainizing technology, its proponents, or its opponents. If You Enjoy "Roadside Crosses Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel a Kathryn Dance Novel (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:
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