Time Bomb (Alex Delaware Novels)

by Jonathan Kellerman

1991

Status

Available

Publication

Bantam (1991), 496 pages

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. �??Virtually impossible to put aside until the final horrifying showdown.�?��??People While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his therapy sessions with the traumatized children, he couldn�??t escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversized 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 his 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… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Darrol

Narrative drags until the rather overly dramatic climax. Neo-Nazi theme. Too light on the psychology. The techno-geek character fun, but do any individuals really have that capacity?

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LibraryThing member debavp

First impression, this is going to be boring, no wait it IS boring. I’m really not sure what the plot is , I can’t seem to find it and yet I plod on. About two-thirds in there’s the “A-HA” moment. “Dude”, you shout out loud, things are starting to make sense, especially since you’ve

eliminated almost everyone and everything. At this point don’t plan on doing anything else until you finish the book. Seriously!

Kellerman,as he is prone to do, gets in his Holocaust lesson. No doubt it’s a mandatory field trip, but he’s learning to handle it a bit more deftly. Hang in there though, because when you think you’ve got things figured out there’s one loose end that surprises you, actually maybe it’s two or three.

The near ending is impressive , but trust me, that final moment, well you won’t be disappointed!

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LibraryThing member dianaleez

This may well be the most heavy-handed presentation of an author's personal political views in the guise of fiction that I've read in the past twenty years.

That said, I agree with Kellerman's views in general, but I read detective fiction for fun not political enlightenment.

LibraryThing member Kaethe

By this point Delaware wasn't really holding my interest anymore, and not enough time is given over to the most interesting character: Milo.

LibraryThing member CatherineBurkeHines

This went incredibly slowly for me; I had to force myself to finish it. I'm maybe overdosed on Alex Delaware, since I've read a number of the early books this summer. But this was maybe my least favorite of the series.

LibraryThing member Rockhead515

A little more far-fetched than usual but still a good Delaware story.

LibraryThing member lbswiener

Time Bomb is a book about the Nazis in the state of California. There is a lot of racist dialogue that is quite upsetting. A murder happened and it was allegedly in defense. All of the pieces of the story are tied together in the end of the story. Obviously a lot of research was conducted by the

author. It is quite scary to know that these people are thriving. Four stars were given to this book.

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LibraryThing member PaulaGalvan

After a school shooting, Detective Milo Sturgis calls in his friend and LAPD consulting psychologist, Dr. Alex Delaware, to provide counseling for the traumatized kids. The unlikely shooter, a young girl, is killed, but her death leaves more questions than answers for the police. Things morph

quickly into political rivalry, racist pro-nazi groups, and strange cloak-and-dagger operatives. The first part of the book goes slow while Alex does his thing at the school and starts a new relationship with the principal, Dr. Linda Overstreet, but once the action begins, there are lots of it, along with a couple of plot twists that I didn’t see coming. There are so many issues in this book that I found it hard to keep up and still hang onto the storyline. To bring it all together, Mr. Kellerman does a lot of explaining at the end. It worked—barely.

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