### From Library Journal Head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Fairstein put her knowledge to work in Final Jeopardy (LJ 4/15/96), her best-selling Alexandra Cooper thriller. Now Alex handles a sexual assault whose victim is "likely to die." Copyright 1997 Reed
Likely to Die
β Scribed by Linda Fairstein
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 309 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0743490215
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β¦ Synopsis
The real-life work of sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein brought "riveting authenticity" (Vanity Fair) to her bestselling debut novel, Final Jeopardy. Now Fairstein's fictional counterpart -- smart and savvy assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper -- returns in "[a] Grisham-esque page turner" (Time) that puts Alex in the line of fire.
New York City's oldest and largest medical center is the scene of a ghastly attack: top neurosurgeon Gemma Dogen is found in her blood-soaked office, where she has been sexually assaulted, stabbed, and designated by the cops as a "likely to die." By the time Alex has plunged into the case, it's a high-profile, media-infested murder investigation with a growing list of suspects from among those who roam the hospital's labyrinthine halls. As Alex's passion to find the killer intensifies, she discovers this hospital is not a place of healing but of deadly peril -- and that she is the next target for lethal violence.
A high-style thr...
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