Wild improbability and cardboard characters mar this legal thriller from MacDougal (Breach of Trust), which features a heroine who has trained herself to be "as insensitive as any man." Workaholic law partner Dana Svenssen, a leggy blonde "Valkyrie" pushing 40 but "an eyecatcher still," is on her car phone with the president of Pennsteel corporation when his helicopter crashes. She races to the scene of the accident, a Pennsylvania amusement park where, coincidentally, her own prepubescent daughters are recreating with their day camp. There she discovers that the client's JetRanger has mysteriously collided with a light plane: all five air passengers are dead, and seven others are killed on the ground when the wreckage suddenly explodes. After briskly confirming that her girls are unharmed, Dana cancels vacation plans in order to defend her corporate client's not-so-deep pockets. But this is no ordinary day at the office for Dana: her home and car are burglarized, then her mopey, writer's-blocked husband vanisheskidnapped, she soon learns, by some shadowy group with ties to the accident. Meanwhile, Dana finds herself swept into a torrid affair with a "dimpled and devilish" accident reconstructionist some 10 years her junior. ("Suddenly she understood how a million men must have felt before her. I've worked so hard, and I've given so much. This is my reward.") Between over-the-top action sequences, MacDougal shows a flair for interoffice intrigue (and even delivers a few zingers on lawyers' staffing and billing procedures). But Dana's self-absorbed machisma is unappealing, sometimes even creepy, and many of the secondary characters are paper-thin, particularly her daughters, surely the most compliant preteens on the planet. (Apr.)
Attorney Bonnie MacDougal knows firsthand the fast-paced world of the big-city law firm and the effect a frenetic practice can have on a lawyer's family life. This intimate knowledge infuses her thrillers with stunning authenticity. And now, with Angle of Impact, she gives us an explosive novel of suspense that literally begins with a bang.
Dana Svenssen, a brilliant, overworked Philadelphia lawyer, is on her way to a routine business meeting when her carefully ordered world detonates. The helicopter carrying her client collides with an airplane directly over the amusement park where Dana's two daughters are spending the day on a class trip. As fiery debris rains down on screaming families, Dana desperately races to the scene to find her children. Then, in the frantic aftermath, she discovers that the tragic accident isn't an accident.
Yet determining the probable cause of the collision is arduous and near impossible. As Dana assembles a crack team of forensic aviation experts to reconstruct the disaster, her troubled marriage threatens to crash and burn as well. Until a kidnapping suddenly throws Dana into the maelstrom of a deadly, all-consuming conspiracy.
Sharp, tautly written, and packed with vivid characters and nonstop action, Angle of Impact shows that Bonnie MacDougal has earned her brilliant reputation as "the female John Grisham." *
(* London Evening Standard)
Attorney Bonnie MacDougal knows firsthand the fast-paced world of the big-city law firm and the effect a frenetic practice can have on a lawyer's family life. This intimate knowledge infuses her thrillers with stunning authenticity. And now, with Angle of Impact, she gives us an explosive novel of suspense that literally begins with a bang.
Dana Svenssen, a brilliant, overworked Philadelphia lawyer, is on her way to a routine business meeting when her carefully ordered world detonates. The helicopter carrying her client collides with an airplane directly over the amusement park where Dana's two daughters are spending the day on a class trip. As fiery debris rains down on screaming families, Dana desperately races to the scene to find her children. Then, in the frantic aftermath, she discovers that the tragic accident isn't an accident.
Yet determining the probable cause of the collision is arduous and near impossible. As Dana assembles a crack team of forensic aviation experts to reconstruct the disaster, her troubled marriage threatens to crash and burn as well. Until a kidnapping suddenly throws Dana into the maelstrom of a deadly, all-consuming conspiracy.
Sharp, tautly written, and packed with vivid characters and nonstop action, Angle of Impact shows that Bonnie MacDougal has earned her brilliant reputation as "the female John Grisham." *
(* London Evening Standard)
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940172638237 |
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| Publisher: | Brilliance Audio |
| Publication date: | 02/22/2008 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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