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Killer Dust
Hardcover edition 2003, St. Martin's Minotaur, New York
Mass market paperback edition 2004, St. Martin's Dead Letter, New York
Book Description
Forensic geologist Em Hansen has barely survived a series of life-altering
events that have forced her to get to know herself all over again. Her
longtime boyfriend is now a few months in her past, the future she had
laid out for herself has evaporated into thin air, and her new man, Jack
Sampler, has run away.
Well, not run away exactly, but has set off on a secret operation, possibly
related to his job as an FBI agent, without telling Em where he is going
or when he'll be back.
It soon becomes clear that he's in Florida, perhaps as part of an investigation
the FBI has been running on a cloud of dust moving into the atmosphere,
ostensibly borne on winds from Africa, and the implications it has for
global politics.
But Em suspects something more sinister may be at work. Will Jack ever
forgive her for following him to the southeast and butting in on his case?
That is if they get out of this situation with their relationship, not
to mention their bodies, intact.
With its suspenseful story that begins in a cloud of dust and leads
all the way to NASA, Killer Dust is another top-notch mystery full of
the impeccably researched popular science and the complex, engaging characters
Sarah Andrews's many fans have come to expect from her award-winning series.
Publishers Weekly
"For Em Hansen's eighth outing, Andrews takes on national security
in a complicated plot about airborne anthrax and the possible devastation
it could wreak on the planet. Em's knowledge of Earth's minutiae propels
her from her Wyoming home to the humid wetlands of Florida, where her
new lover, FBI agent Jack Sampler (introduced in 2002's Fault Line),
has disappeared.
As always, Andrews surrounds Em with a cast of unusual supporting characters;
yet Hansen is still her gem-unpolished, naive and, worst of all for a
Florida trip, hydrophobic.
Ably combining science and suspense, Andrews once again entertains and
educates, making the driest dust theory intriguing and portraying Florida's
landscape in a new geophysical light".
(Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.)
The New York Times Book Review
" [Em Hansen is] a clear-thinking, straight-talking heroine whose
unabashed naïveté is endearing".
—Marilyn Stasio
Harriet Klausner
"Sarah Andrews keeps getting better with every book she writes".
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