Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen by Deaver, Jeffery. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780671047511.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Empty Chair and The Devils Teardrop, is back displaying his "ticking-bomb suspense" (People) in this never-before-published thriller. Every New York City neighborhood has a story, but what John Pellam uncovers in Hells Kitchen has a darkness all its own. The Hollywood location scout and former stuntman is in the Big Apple hoping to capture the unvarnished memories of longtime Kitchen residents such as Ettie Washington in a no-budget documentary film. But when a suspicious fire ravages the elderly womans crumbling tenement, Pellam realizes that someone might want the past to stay buried. As more buildings and lives go up in flames, Pellam takes to the streets, seeking the twisted pyromaniac who sells services to the highest bidder. But Pellam is unaware that the fires are merely flickering preludes to the arsonists ultimate masterpiece, a conflagration of nearly unimaginable proportion, with Hells Kitchen -- and John Pellam -- at its blackened and searing epicenter.