Critical Mass - V.I. Warshawski

@2@Private Eye V.I. Warshawski is roused one morning by an SOS from a woman on a farm south of Chicago. When V.I. gets there, she finds no woman - but a dead man in a cornfield, his body savagely mutilated.@3@@2@V.I. is happy to leave the case to the local sheriff: it looks like a falling out among meth dealers. But back in Chicago, she learns that the missing woman is a protegee of her oldest friend and confidante, Dr Lotty Herschel, and is compelled to investigate. @3@@2@What V.I. uncovers pulls her into a world of nuclear secrets and high-stakes computing, with roots reaching back to the Second World War. The detective soon finds herself in a hall of mirrors where she can't tell reality from video games, and her life is on the line. For V.I., this is her most profound, and terrifying, adventure yet . . .@3@

Product details

• Authors: Sara Paretsky, Paretsky Sara
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9781444758702
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-5870-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Vic Warshawski; V.I. Warshawski; Vic Warshawski / V. I. Warshawski
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery fiction