**An ambitious firefighter hunts a notorious arsonist in the Edgar Awardβwinning true crime story the *New York Times* calls "stranger than fiction."** From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 *New York Times*βbestselling author of such classics as *The Onion Field* and *The Choirboys*, comes the extraordina
Fire Lover: A True Story
β Scribed by Wambaugh, Joseph
- Book ID
- 109310384
- Publisher
- Avon
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 204 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fires broke out in two nearby stores. Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man respected as one of California's foremost arson investigators, a captain in the Glendale Fire Department ... From Joseph Wambaugh, the critically acclaimed,nationally bestselling author of The Onion Field, comes the astonishing true story of a nightmarish obsession -- and the hunt for a brilliant psychopath who lived a double life filled with professional tributes and terrifying secrets. **
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