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Thayer, James White Star
Pocket January 1, 1996 0-671-52817-3 / 9780671528171 Paperback Very Good
Slickly paced suspense, droll humor and extreme violence are deftly balance d in Thayer's (Ringer) new thriller, a tale of sniper vs. sniper that's the literary equivalent of shooting the rapids in a tiny canoe. Manhattan-base d federal prosecutor Owen Gray loses his big case against mob boss Carmine "Chinaman" De Sallo, but the don loses an even bigger stake when he's shot dead at the post-trial press conference-by a rifleman stationed several blo cks away. Gray's good friend, NYPD detective Pete Coates, draws the case an d taps into Gray's experience as a Marine sniper in Vietnam to pinpoint the high-rise firing site. There, the cop finds the shooter's "signature," a s hell with a red ring painted on it. When the shell is identified as Russian -made, Gray and Coates turn to the beautiful Adrian Wade, a State Departmen t security expert stationed in Moscow, to help ID the sniper; he turns out to be the mentally unstable Nikolai Trusov, who long ago was bested by Gray in Vietnam and who's now come to the States to force the ultimate grudge m atch. After Trusov plays nasty cat to Gray's mouse, including threatening t he lawyer's adopted children, Gray lures the Russian to his childhood ranch in the wilds of Idaho for a shooters' showdown; meanwhile, Coates and Wade set up every high-tech trap possible against Trusov. But the Russian outsm arts his electronic trackers, setting the stage for a duel in a granite-rid ged valley that is soon stained with both men's blood. Featuring reasonably believable plot devices and characters, as well as some informative sniper lore and witty banter to periodically relieve the tension, this deft thril
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