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Maggie O'Dell is dispatched to Pensacola, Florida along with Charlie Wurth, deputy director of Homeland Security, who requested her help. A cooler with packaged body parts was found off the coast and her job is to help figure out if something's afoul. Meanwhile, Dr. Benjamin Platt is also sent to Pensacola to help determine what's killing soldiers who've survived surgery following limb amputations but die inexplicably. Oh, and both of them are flying into the path of Hurricane Isaac.
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FBI Agent Maggie O'Dell is sent to Florida to investigate a fishing cooler that was found by the Coast Guard. The cooler contained a foot, three hands, and a torso; each individually wrapped in plastic. An autopsy of the torso helps Maggie discover the identity of a man who disappeared from the Atlantic coast earlier in the year during a hurricane. How did he end up in a cooler floating in the gulf? With a new hurricane bearing down on the Florida panhandle, Maggie only has hours before she must
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3 Stars
Gives the impression that Kava was asked to churn out a book in a rush and this was the rather hurried result.
The identity of the killer is revealed pretty early and his initial motivation is obvious. For some reason, his undergoes a personality change toward the end that has no real foundation (view spoiler) and detracts from the ...more
3 Stars
Gives the impression that Kava was asked to churn out a book in a rush and this was the rather hurried result.
The identity of the killer is revealed pretty early and his initial motivation is obvious. For some reason, his undergoes a personality change toward the end that has no real foundation (view spoiler) and detracts from the ...more
Maybe 3.5 stars.
The mystery had nothing to do with Maggie O'Dell, but the medical mystery that Dr. Benjamin Platt was looking into on the Naval Base hospital. A Category 5 hurricane heading toward Pensacola.
The helicopter rescue woman "swimmer" was an interesting character.
The selling of body parts was gruesome, as were a couple of the characters involved in finding their corpses still alive and well. So no mystery about who was involved in this activity.
If I have given up on FBI profiling, I ca ...more
The mystery had nothing to do with Maggie O'Dell, but the medical mystery that Dr. Benjamin Platt was looking into on the Naval Base hospital. A Category 5 hurricane heading toward Pensacola.
The helicopter rescue woman "swimmer" was an interesting character.
The selling of body parts was gruesome, as were a couple of the characters involved in finding their corpses still alive and well. So no mystery about who was involved in this activity.
If I have given up on FBI profiling, I ca ...more
2.5 STARS
"In Pensacola Beach, the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane that has entered the Gulf of Mexico. When the air crew patrols the waterways, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Drug traffickers have been known to dump coolers with smuggled product to avoid detection and pay fishermen to retrieve them. But when the crew open this cooler, they're shocked by what they find: body parts tightly wrapped in plastic.
Though she is putting herself in the projected pa ...more
"In Pensacola Beach, the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane that has entered the Gulf of Mexico. When the air crew patrols the waterways, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Drug traffickers have been known to dump coolers with smuggled product to avoid detection and pay fishermen to retrieve them. But when the crew open this cooler, they're shocked by what they find: body parts tightly wrapped in plastic.
Though she is putting herself in the projected pa ...more
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