Deadly Heat - Nikki Heat, Bk 5 Author:Richard Castle Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook race to stop a deadly threat from Heat's past as well as an all-too-present serial killer in Richard Castle's follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Frozen Heat. — Determined to find justice for her mother, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat continues to pursue the elusive former CIA station ch... more »ief who ordered her execution over a decade ago. For the hunt, Nikki teams once again with her romantic partner, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jameson Rook. Their quest for the old spy and the motive behind the past murder unearths an alarming terror plot - which is anything but ancient history. It is lethal. It is now. And it has already entered its countdown phase.
Complicating Heat's mission to bring the rogue spy to justice and thwart the looming terror event, a serial killer begins menacing the Twentieth Precinct, and her homicide squad is under pressure to stop him, and soon. The murderer, known for his chilling stealth, singles out Nikki as the exclusive recipient of his taunting messages, then names her as his next victim.
Richard Castle is a fictional character from the ABC television show, Castle. The biography is of this character. His name is being used as a pseudonym for tie-in novels to the TV show.« less