Blood Work [マスマーケット]

コナリー渾身のスリラー大作！
連続殺人犯担当だったFBI捜査官テリー・マッケイレブ。心筋症を患っていた彼は心臓移植を受け、早期引退していた。病院から退院した彼のもとにある女性が現れる。その女性グラシエラによると、いまマッケイレブの胸のなかで動いている心臓はコンビニ強盗に遭遇して絶命した彼女の妹グロリアのものだという‥‥‥。因縁の糸に導かれ、事件の解決にのめり込んでいくマッケイレブが到達した真相とは？『ナイトホークス』でのデビュー以来、ミステリーの最前線を疾走するコナリーが、テーマ、プロット、キャラクター……それらすべてに趣向をつくして、現代ハードボイルドのさらなる可能性を拓いた意欲作！

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連続殺人犯担当だったFBI捜査官テリー・マッケイレブ。心筋症を患っていた彼は心臓移植を受け、早期引退していた。病院から退院した彼のもとにある女性が現れる。その女性グラシエラによると、いまマッケイレブの胸のなかで動いている心臓はコンビニ強盗に遭遇して絶命した彼女の妹グロリアのものだという…。因縁の糸に導かれ、事件の解決にのめり込んでいくマッケイレブが到達した真相とは?『ナイトホークス』でのデビュー以来、ミステリーの最前線を疾走するコナリーが、テーマ、プロット、キャラクター…それらすべてに趣向をつくして、現代ハードボイルドのさらなる可能性を拓いた意欲作。 --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

連続殺人犯担当だったFBI捜査官テリーは、心筋症のため心臓移植を受け、早期引退していた。しかし、その心臓がコンビニ強盗に遭遇して絶命した女性のものだと知った彼は事件の解決に乗り出す。〈ソフトカバー〉 --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Connelly combines a poet's ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mind to create dark, dramatic stories that raise the thriller genre to a new level.

In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn't looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria's death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb's chest is Gloria's.

As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before.

Connelly follows up Trunk Music with a tautly paced, seductively involving thriller about a murder that is less random than it seems. Ex-FBI agent Terry McCaleb is recuperating from a heart transplant when beautiful Graciela Rivers walks up to his San Pedro houseboat, tells him that the donor of his new heart, her sister Gloria, was murdered in a convenience-store robbery and asks him to find the killer. Although his doctor warns him against it, McCaleb can't resist the case (any more than he could resist the serial-murder cases that caused his heart attack in the first place). With no license and little cooperation from the police, McCaleb reviews the evidence and connects a second murder to Gloria's killer. But it's only when he discovers that souvenirs have been taken from the victims that McCaleb realizes he is dealing with a type of killer with which he is all too familiar. Even working with seemingly shopworn material, Connelly produces fresh twists and turns, and, as usual, packs his plot with believable, logical surprises. He adds a moral twist by establishing a frightening bond between the hunter and the hunted, intimately connecting his detective to the criminal's guilt. Fans of Connelly's Harry Bosch novels will feel right at home with this beautifully constructed, powerfully resonating thriller, and newcomers will see right away what all the fuss has been about. Author tour.
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FBI Agent Terry Mclaeb comes out of retirement to investigate the murder of the woman that gave a new heart so he could survive. With the help of the victim sister he discover that her murder is not just a hit a run incident, but a calculated murder to get the organs of her rare blod group. Under pressure from the LAPD detetives, Mclaeb becomes a suspect himself. He is is convinced though that the murderer was hired by some famous figure . His only mistake is not guessing that famous figure.
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Michael Connelly is a former journalist and has won every major prize for crime fiction. He lives in Florida.