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基本信息·出版社：Penguin Books Ltd
·页码：400 页
·出版日期：2006年01月
·ISBN：0141017120
·条形码：9780141017129
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：最后的证人
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A riveting new novel from the internationally bestselling author of
Retribution.
Cops are dying. Hunted down while on patrol, they are being murdered while trying to protect the citizens of Miami from this very type of crime. Dominick Falconetti, an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, is charged with heading a task force to investigate. Details at the crime scenes point to a drug connection, and when a highly-placed gang member disappears, it reinforces Dominick's suspicions that these cops were all involved in something unsavory.
C. J. Townsend, the state prosecutor he has loved for the past three years-ever since they met on the infamous Cupid investigation-is getting the calls in the middle of the night as well. As the state attorney who put Florida's last serial killer behind bars, she's the logical choice to help stop this one. But before long, C.J. begins to suspect that she knows an even more terrible secret than Dominick does about why these cops are being murdered.
A tense, gripping crime drama set against the richly detailed background of the Miami legal system and police department,
Last Witness is an extraordinary novel.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 作者简介 Jilliane Hoffman served as an assistant state attorney in Miami, where she was a felony prosecutor with special assignments to the Extradition/Legal Unit and the Domestic Violence Unit.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 媒体推荐 书评
From Publishers Weekly Truth and justice collide in former prosecutor Hoffman''s sequel to
Retribution. Miami Assistant State Attorney C.J. Townsend finds herself living a nightmare, beginning with a call to go to the homicide scene of Victor Chavez, a cop who helped her convict serial killer William Bantling. Chavez''s body has been mutilated, his tongue twisted into what a former DEA officer calls the "Colombian necktie." Early clues to this and subsequent, equally brutal, murders point to Florida''s drug underworld, but Townsend''s fiancé, Special Agent Dominick Falconetti, and his team track the case back to Bantling. Falconetti is arrested for assaulting the ever-taunting Bantling, but even with the lead detective off the investigation, troubling facts emerge, while Townsend, haunted by her role in Bantling''s trial (she withheld evidence to put the man who raped her on death row), tries to distance herself. Instead, she must confront her torturer in court, putting her career, her relationship and eventually her life at risk. Reminders of fictional predecessors (Bantling in Hannibal Lecter restraints, Townsend''s Dirty Harriet heroics) and occasional uninspired romantic passages are Hoffman''s weakness; procedural detail and methodical depiction of the horrific are her strength. She combines the gruesome precision of Patricia Cornwell, the courtroom savvy of Linda Fairstein and the Miami setting of Edna Buchanan to produce an unsettling tale that, unlike most detective fiction, is not neatly tied up at the end.
Agent, Luke Janklow. Foreign rights sold in 10 countries. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From AudioFile Miami Assistant State Attorney C.J. Townsend is living a nightmare. She''s haunted by her role in the Cupid Murders. She withheld evidence, critical to the defense, to put the man who raped her on death row. Now she''s being terrorized as someone begins murdering the five others engaged in the conspiracy of silence surrounding that case. Kathe Mazur narrates this gripping crime drama with ease, delivering pulse-pounding descriptions that will keep listeners glued to their earphones. C.J.''s low-key, yet clearly traumatized, description of Chavez''s mutilated body, his tongue twisted into a "Colombian necktie," exposes the grave danger she is confronting. K.A.T. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine--
Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. From Booklist Nothing makes cops madder than the death of one of their own. When a spate of excessively violent cop killings befalls the Miami area, Special Agent Dominick Falconetti (himself a former cop), and his fiancee, C. J. Townsend, an assistant DA, team up to try to find the killer. Dominick''s specialty is getting different factions to cooperate on a special task force, but in this case, all the participants--from federal, county, and city jurisdictions--are too busy marking their territories to do much crime fighting. The revelation that the victims were all "bad" cops of one kind or another doesn''t do much to stop the infighting, despite mutual agreement that the slaughter needs to end. Meanwhile, C. J. fears a secret of her own (relating to the events in Hoffman''s first novel
Retribution, 2003) may relate to the murderer''s motive. Not for the faint of heart, this chilling account combines all the ingredients of the high-concept thriller: violence, action, romance, political intrigue, and even a touch of humor.
Mary Frances WilkensCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Nelson DeMille Jilliane Hoffman is, without a doubt, one of the best legal thriller writers in the country.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author of Entombed Hoffman writes thrilling suspense; her insider knowledge of the criminal justice system is dazzling.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 编辑推荐 Review 'Writes like an angel. An outstanding debut' Independent on Sunday
