Killer View (Walt Fleming)
by Ridley Pearson
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Author: Ridley PearsonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-15
ISBN: 0399155058
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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Book Review: " 'But we're the good guys.' "
Summary: 4 Stars
Ridley Pearson introduced Walt Fleming, the capable sheriff of Sun Valley, Idaho, in last year's KILLER WEEKEND, a thriller/whodunit about the attempted assassination of a woman attorney general planning a run for the White House. Now, this series continues with KILLER VIEW, another suspense novel with political buttresses.
Initially, Walt leads a search party for a missing skier. The foray to the unforgiving Drop on Galena Pass during a swirling snowstorm turns up no missing person but leaves one of the volunteers dead. At first, he's thought to have slipped and fallen. But Walt soon suspects murder. The sheriff's suspicions widen when Mark Aker, his friend, disappears.
Keeping the search for Mark on the front burner, Walt must also wrestle with evidence of mysterious, contagious animal deaths and possibly related human illness at a nearby water bottling plant. Then, during their investigations, Walt and Deputy Brandon register "hot" for radiation. Are all these developments related and might they be the key to finding his friend? He keeps returning to his and Mark's last, unfinished conversation, where his friend hinted at a larger scheme at work by saying, " 'We never talk...politics.' "
The reader also spends time with the kidnapper, first as a no-name who cold-bloodedly kidnaps a young woman. Later, name revealed, he deals with another captive. But the kidnapper's own obsessive mission leads him to seek his prisoner's cooperation which in turn leads to an attempted escape and to some of the most hair-raising scenes in KILLER VIEW.
Pearson pieces together a fast-paced tale from diverse elements, and while this adds a sense of disorientation (a little like being on a speeding merry-go-round), by the end, those pieces do fit smartly into the larger frame. However, the author is so busy packing in descriptions of Glitter Gulch (i.e., Sun Valley) and keeping his plot from running away with him and us, that many of the characters are pretty flimsy. Pearson also got some flak for thin characters in KILLER WEEKEND. Perhaps he believes that over the course of the entire series, he can slowly strengthen the recurring characters and that plot must drive the novels. However, more balance between characters and plot development would be enhance, not hobble, this series.
KILLER VIEW burrows into sensitive and ethically ambiguous political terrain. As he tries to make sense of all the clues, Walt never forgets Mark's comment about "politics." He must confront the unsettling, ever shifting Rubik's cube constructed from individual and governmental rights and responsibilities. He has to ask himself whether national security interests justify acts conceivably rivaling those of individuals and groups determined to expose governmental secrecy through violent means. As is almost universally true, everyone from every side thinks they are "the good guys?" Read KILLER VIEW and see if there are any "good guys."
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