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Book Review of Time Bomb (Alex Delaware, Bk 5)

Time Bomb (Alex Delaware, Bk 5)
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By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the shool the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt.

While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his therapy sessions with the tramatized children, he couldn't escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversided rifle. What was the identity behind the name and face: a would-be assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky? Intrigued by a request from the sniper's father to conduct a "psychological autopsy" of this child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern - it is a trail of blood. In the dead sniper's past was a dark and vicious plot. And in Alex Delaware's future is the stuff of grown-up nightmares: the face of real human evil.