FFB Review: Leverage in Death: In Death Series by J.D. Robb

What could motivate an executive known as a good man to walk into a room and detonate the bomb vest he wore? That is the question that Eve Dallas and her team must answer in Leverage in Death by J.D. Robb.

 

There is no question that Paul Rogan did it. He walked into a room where the executives of Quantum Air and EconoLift were meeting to sign the paperwork for the merger of the two companies. He walked up to Derrick Pearson, The President and CEO of Quantum Air, said something to him that sounded like an apology according to survivors, and detonated.

 

When Lieutenant Dallas arrives, Lieutenant Lisbeth Salazer, head of the Explosives and Bombs Unit, informs her nine people in the conference room survived. Eleven are dead, including the bomber. Fortunately for folks in the hallway and nearby offices, the suicide vest had limited range. Otherwise, things would have been far worse.

 

Married with an eight-year-old daughter, and known to all as a good guy, there seems to be no explanation for Paul Rogan’s actions. Upon learning the news that neither his wife or daughter showed up at school, Dallas sends officers to their house. Soon the officers find the wife and child in the home and in considerable distress.

 

All evidence in the first hour or so points to the family being taken hostage, terrorized physically and emotionally, and Paul Rogan forced to make a horrible choice. The choice was do either walk in and do what he did or watch his family go through far worse than they had already suffered and then be killed.  Who forced him to do what he did and why are the two primary questions Dallas, Peabody, and the team must answer. Especially since the folks who did this show no signs of stopping.

 

What follows is another good read in this series that blends police procedural and romance. It may be set nearly twenty years in the future, but what happens in Leverage in Death by J. D. Robb, could be happening now, or happened last week. It is that relevant.  

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My large print reading copy came from the Dallas Public Library System.

 

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