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Informationen zum Autor Kathy Reichs is the author of eighteen New York Times bestselling novels featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Like her protagonist! Reichs is a forensic anthropologist—one of fewer than one hundred ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. A professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte! she is a former vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and serves on the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. Reichs’s own life! as much as her novels! is the basis for the TV show Bones ! one of the longest-running series in the history of the FOX network. Klappentext Just as 200!000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week! a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day! a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan's office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier! Wayne Gamble's sister! Cindi! then a high school senior and aspiring racer! disappeared along with her boyfriend! Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindi's? Or Cale's? Zusammenfassung Producer of the FOX television hit Bones Kathy Reichs accelerates the suspense in NASCAR country! where Dr. Temperance Brennan reignites a stalled federal case with explosive forensic clues—to murder. She lived for speed—and vanished without a trace. . . As 200!000 fans pour into town for Race Week! a body is found in a metal drum near Charlotte Motor Speedway—a discovery that has NASCAR crewman Wayne Gamble urgently seeking out Tempe at the Mecklenburg County ME’s office: twelve years ago! his sister! Cindi! then a high school senior and aspiring professional race car driver! disappeared along with her boyfriend! Cale Lovette! who was linked to a group of right-wing extremists. The FBI joined the investigation! but it was soon terminated. Is the body Cindi’s? Or Cale’s? Tests reveal that a toxic substance was in the drum with the body—just as another disappearance occurs. Who is orchestrating the mayhem behind the scenes at NASCAR—and what government secrets might have been buried more than a decade ago? ...
