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    Nye stepped toward the FBI agent as the airline supervisor said, "It looks like a late booking, Flight 1456 to Los Angeles, in the name of S. Drucker" He tapped again.The FBI agent was already on his radio.

内容提要

  

    He was a war hero and a member of Congress. Now he's dead shot down the day after he made a scathing speech blasting corruption in Washington. For Sacramento police detectives Terry Nye and Rose Tafoya, the investigation is a time bomb. They have just twenty-four hours to find out if the congressman was killed because of his speech...or something far worse.

    WILLIAM P, WOOD is a former district attorney who has handled thousands of cases and dozens of trials involving crimes ranging from disturbing the peace to murder. He is the author of the novels Rampage,which was made into a motion picture for Miramax,Gangland, Fugitive City, Stay of Execution, Quicksand and Broken Trust, which was made into a motion picture for TNT. In addition, he wrote the true crime book The Bone Garden based on Sacramento boardinghouse killer Dorothea Puente, who buried seven of her nine victims in her yard. Wood sent Puente to prison for earlier crimes including robbery and drugging elderly victims.
    Wood lives in Sacramento, California.