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  • Published: 15 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9780735212671
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

The Room of White Fire





Three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker delivers a stirring thriller about a private investigator tasked with hunting down a returned soldier broken and made dangerous by his experiences at war.

“Mesmerizing and haunting.”—Lisa Gardner
 
“T. Jefferson Parker is the poet of American crime fiction, and The Room of White Fire absolutely proves why.”—C.J. Box

In this stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker, P.I. Roland Ford must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by war, dangerous, and on the run.
 
Roland Ford—once a cop, then a marine, now a private investigator—is good at finding people. But when he’s asked to locate an Air Force veteran who’s escaped from a mental institution, he realizes he’s been drawn into something deep and dark. What he doesn’t know is why a shroud of secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickman—and why he’s getting a different story from everyone involved. In a flash, what began as just a job becomes a life-or-death obsession for Ford, pitting him against immensely powerful and treacherous people and forcing him to contend with chilling questions about truth, justice, and the American way.

“A fast-paced, beautifully written thriller."—The Washington Post

  • Published: 15 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9780735212671
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

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Praise for The Room of White Fire

"Bestseller Parker provides a glimpse into the shadowy, disturbing, and morally indefensible world of outsourced interrogation in this excellent series launch."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"T. Jefferson Parker is the poet of American crime fiction, and The Room of White Fire absolutely proves why. It's topical, poignant, brutal, tragic and wry at the same time--and the tale thumps along with the rhythmic and stylistic soundtrack of a beating heart that seems to be shared by P.I. Roland Ford and Parker himself. There's a damned good reason T. Jefferson Parker has won three Edgar Awards. The Room of White Fire is the opening salvo of a new series that might win him his fourth."--C.J. Box
"Mesmerizing and haunting. The kind of shocking suspense that keeps you racing to the bitter end. The kind of compelling characters that leave you willing to read from the beginning again. I'm already counting down to the next book in the series."--Lisa Gardner
"Parker plays the reader like a virtuoso, with never a disappointing page. His hero is gutsy and vulnerable, the danger high-risk, with treachery coming from all directions. And when you're done, like me you're going to be clamoring for more from this new series."--Steve Berry
"T. Jefferson Parker's richly haunting tale about the hidden costs of America's secret war on terror should be the next book you read. The Room of White Fire is sad and funny and deeply moving, classic California noir with heartbreaking prose and unexpected moments of grace."--Nick Petrie