image of person or book cover 4236041786132865526.jpg
This image has been sourced from online.
y separately published work icon Hard Rain single work   novel   crime   thriller  
Is part of Special Agent Vin Cooper David A. Rollins , 2005 series - author novel (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Hard Rain
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'When the US Attaché to Turkey, Colonel Emmet Portman, is found butchered in his Istanbul residence, Special Agents Vin Cooper and Anna Masters are sent to investigate. Within days of their arrival, Portman's associates begin to die gruesomely.

'There's a serial killer at large.

'But there are inconsistencies. Why does one murder appear to have religious symbolism, while the next doesn't? Why do the slayings appear to have been executed with military precision? And why has Portman's email inbox been tampered with and whole days' worth of communications apparently wiped out?

'Nothing is making a hell of a lot of sense to Cooper - not least, Anna's plan to marry JAG lawyer Colonel Richard Wadding, known to everyone who has ever come into contact with him as Colonel Dick Wad.

'Cooper and Masters find themselves hunted, smacked around, shot at, buried alive and blown up from Turkey to Iraq, to Egypt to Oak Ridge. It would be helpful if they were on speaking terms.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Epigraph: Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. - Proverbs 9:17

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Off the Shelf : Thriller Owen Richardson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 September 2008; (p. 28)

— Review of Hard Rain David A. Rollins , 2008 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Thriller Owen Richardson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 September 2008; (p. 28)

— Review of Hard Rain David A. Rollins , 2008 single work novel
Last amended 22 Aug 2014 11:47:41
Settings:
  • Istanbul,
    c
    Turkey,
    c
    Middle East, Asia,
  • c
    Iraq,
    c
    Middle East, Asia,
  • c
    Egypt,
    c
    North Africa, Africa,
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X