The Silent Assassin, Lori B. Andrews
The Silent Assassin, Lori B. Andrews
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The Silent Assassin

Author: Lori B. Andrews

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2007


Synopsis

When a John Doe with a bayonet wound in his chest is discovered in a Washington, D.C., Dumpster, geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is pulled away from her bioterrorism work to aid in the investigation. Just a little digging reveals a corpse that’s not at all that of a homeless robbery victim it was set up to resemble—and Alex and her colleagues find themselves wrapped up in a complicated mystery of high-stakes international financial intrigue.

The homicide investigation is just heating up when a political firestorm erupts over the AFIP’s possession of human skulls brought back from Vietnam thirty years earlier by American servicemen. Alex is handed the delicate task of managing the restoration and return of these grisly souvenirs. Even the President of the United States has become involved, with the actual exchange scheduled to take place at a White House ceremony. Alex knows it’s an important job—and the skulls take on much more urgent significance when she uncovers evidence of a much bigger crime. Suddenly Alex herself is a target and the White House is under fire.

THE SILENT ASSASSIN is a tour-de-force thriller combining the intricate details of forensic science with the dark side of Washington politics and one of the freshest and most original characters in crime fiction today.

About Lori B. Andrews

Lori Andrews is a law professor and the director of the Institute for Science, Law, and Technology at Illinois Institute of Technology. She has served as a regular advisor to the US government on ethical issues regarding new technologies and was the chair of the federal committee on ethical and legal issues concerning the Human Genome Project.


Reviews

Goodreads review by hugo

Het boek geschreven met kennis van zaken. De schrijfster is hoogleraar rechten en genetica. Het verhaal gaat over de nasleep van de Vietnam oorlog. Een dode in een afvalcontainer in Washington D.C. met een bajonetwond zal Dr. Alexandra Blake onderzoeken en trachten de moordenaar te vinden. Zeer, zeer s......more

A good fiction read! I didn’t realize until I started reading it that it was the second in a series, but you don’t really need to read the first to understand the second. My only real qualm with this book is how the author used the word “prone” incorrectly at least 5 times. I think she meant supine......more