Fury : a novel

by G. M. Ford

Paper Book, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

MYSTERY

Publication

New York : William Morrow, c2001.

Description

Frank Corso is a pariah--a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy "Trashman" Himes on Death Row was a lie. Convicted of the savage slaying of eight Seattle women, Himes is only six days from execution, unless Frank Corso and outcast photographer Meg Dougherty into a struggle that goes far beyond right, wrong, truth, and justice. Because the lowly and the powerful alike all want Himes dead at any cost--despite startling new evidence that threatens to devastate a city once again.

User reviews

LibraryThing member susandennis
Jerry Ford and I shop in the same bookshop and I knew him back when he was teaching school and complaining at the shop that 'I can write a better book than these guys' and then he did! His first 6 books featured Detective Leo Waterman. Honestly, I was getting a little tired of Leo. But this book
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has a new hero - defrocked journalist, Frank Corso. Both his new hero and his new book are top drawer. Full of meaty story and fabulous characters. This is the book that he was talking about originally and he was right.
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LibraryThing member SeriousGrace
Meet former journalist and perpetual liar Frank Corso. He resembles Stephen Segal as a big man with a black ponytail. Meet Leanne Samples, another liar; only her lies occured under oath as a witness in a death row case. Together, with the fellow outcast and heavily tattooed photographer Meg
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Dougherty, they try to prove the innocence of a criminal on death row. What a bizarre group of characters. I had to ask myself if I would like any of them. We meet them six days before the execution of Walter Leroy Hines. He was convicted of murdering eight women based on the testimony of one woman who survived...you guessed it, liar Leanne Samples. Fury is a hour by hour, play by play of the unfolding drama. Can they save Hines or did he actually do it because Leanne recanted her recant. The only complaint I have about Fury is the fact that the twist at the end wasn't a twist at all. As soon as the timeline started to count back up you know there is more to the story. Totally predictable.
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Language

Original publication date

2001

Physical description

335 p.; 22 inches

ISBN

0380804212 / 9780380804214
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