Hells Kitchen, Jeffery Deaver
Hells Kitchen, Jeffery Deaver
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Hell's Kitchen

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Narrator: Holter Graham

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2009


Synopsis

Writing as William Jeffries, New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver, the “master of ticking-bomb suspense” (People), delivers a thrilling novel that “exposes the brutal side of the Big Apple” (Publishers Weekly).

Every New York City neighborhood has a story, but what John Pellam uncovers in Hell's Kitchen has a darkness all its own. The Hollywood location scout and former stuntman is in the Big Apple hoping to capture the unvarnished memories of longtime Kitchen residents—such as Ettie Washington—in a no‑budget documentary film. But when a suspicious fire ravages the elderly woman’s crumbling tenement, Pellam realizes that someone might want the past to stay buried.

As more buildings and lives go up in flames, Pellam takes to the streets, seeking the twisted pyromaniac who sells services to the highest bidder. But Pellam is unaware that the fires are merely flickering preludes to the arsonist's ultimate masterpiece, a conflagration of nearly unimaginable proportion, with Hell’s Kitchen­—and John Pellam—at its blackened and searing epicenter.

About Jeffery Deaver

Chicago born author, Jeffery Deaver, has been richly rewarded for his successful career as a an American mystery/crime writer, including being a three-time Ellery Queen Reader's Award winner, and several different newspaper best of lists around the world.

Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective is the main character in his most popular series of novels, such as The Broken Window. His time spent practicing law before he embarked on his writing career definitely gave him greater insight into the cases about which he writes.

He was writing about criminal hackers in his 2001 book, The Blue Nowhere. He also established a computer crime unit within the pages of the book. Several of his novels have been adapted for tv and movies. The most popular among them would be The Bone Collector, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

Deaver was chosen to write an official James Bond novel, Carter Blanche, published on May 25, 2011, making him the second American author to participate in the series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on February 22, 2021

This is better than the last one about Pellam in NY doing a documentary of Hells Kitchen. A mad arsonist, gangs, a property developer and a woman social worker helping street kids. Overall much better than the last novel. I think this was the last in the series of three. I think Deaver captured the......more

Goodreads review by Jessie on January 06, 2018

Hell’s Kitchen was by far the best book in Jeffery Deaver’s John Pellam trilogy. Written a decade after the previous novel and the last in the series, it’s evident how well Deaver’s talent grew over the 90s. An incredible mystery thriller with that classic Deaver twist and then twist again. Whilst i......more

Goodreads review by Kym on November 09, 2021

This book was long. Longer than I think it needed to be. I liked the characters but found the book as a whole, hard to continue to pick up. A man is in Hell's Kitchen, doing a documentary of the area and while getting ready to interview one resident, a fire breaks out in the building. Then you go on......more

Goodreads review by Fredrick on January 20, 2019

John Pellam is making a documentary on Hell's Kitchen. He and an old lady he is interviewing are also trapped in a fire set by a serial arsonist. When the woman is arrested for the crime Pellam tries to help her and becomes a target of the arsonist as more landmark status buildings are set ablaze. A......more

Goodreads review by Sonja on October 15, 2014

8.0/10 The plot of the novel is great. However, in my opinion there is too much writing. Deaver gives unnecessary background information, that has no apparent function in the novel. This bothered me quite a bit, because it made the novel a bit boring. It was a bit tedious at some points. Apart from t......more