"Brilliant and enthalling"
FBI agents Dillon Savich, his wife Lacey Sherlock and
their friend Dane Carver are staking out Hooter's Motel in
Pumis City, Maryland hoping to rescue the kidnapped Pinky
before he is killed. His captors Moses Grace and the
teenage psychopath Claudia want Savich and Sherlock dead
because he was involved in the killing of someone Moses
loved. The criminals set a trap for the agents and when
they enter the motel they see a bomb and luckily are able
to escape. The Feds next go to Maestro, Virginia to see fellow agent
Ruth Warnecki who was on a treasure hunt in Wrinkle's Cave
looking for Confederate gold. Suddenly she becomes dizzy and blacks out coming to when she is rescued by Sheriff
Dixon Noble. When the four agents and the sheriff return
to the cave they find the body of a dead student from
nearby Stanislaus College, the Julliard of the south.
Shortly after that grizzly discovery, Savich and Sherlock
pursue a new lead on Moses and Claudia while two men break
into the sheriff's house where Ruth is in an attempt to
kill her. If the agents working the two cases solve them
without being killed it will be a miracle. Fans of Tami Hoag, Iris Johansen, and Kay Hooper will want
to read Catherine Coulter's latest suspense thriller. The
love between Savich and Sherlock is stronger than ever
while Ruth and Noble realizes they feel a strong emotional
connection to one another. There is enough romance in
this crime thriller to satisfy fans of that genre and of
course it will appeal to readers who favor works of
psychological suspense. Ms. Coulter once again delivers
a work brimming with action, chase scenes and terrific
characterizations. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 9, 2005
SummaryFBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most
dangerous case of their careers in Catherine Coulter's
explosive new thriller.
Point Blank's propulsive story takes off when FBI
agents Dillon Savich and Dane Carver are nearly killed while
trying to rescue popular entertainer Pinky Womack from
kidnappers. Lured to a motel in Pumis City, Virginia, by a
known snitch, the only thing the agents discover is a
glowing red timer. The place is demolished in a catastrophic
explosion, but everyone survives.
The same snitch leads them to Arlington National Cemetery,
promising the agents Pinky's safe return. The search is
interrupted when Savich takes a fateful call on his cell.
The mysterious caller taunts Savich with other
threats—against him, and against his wife, fellow agent
Lacey Sherlock. Up against an untraceable foe—not even
MAX can locate him—Savich and Sherlock find themselves
fighting an unstable villain with a very long memory.
At the same time, Agent Ruth Warnecki's passion for treasure
hunting leads her to Winkel's Cave and a cave chamber that
really shouldn't exist—as well as a dead student from
Stanislaus Music School, left there for eternity. Some
students have wandered quite far from the beaten path, with
terrible consequences.
An edge-of-your-seat thriller as exhilarating and
frightening as anything she's ever written, Point
Blank is Catherine Coulter's finest achievement.
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