Fire Lover
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 27, 2003
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- Who it’s for
- A true-crime account drawn to the unsettling distance between professional respect and terrifying secrets.
- Themes
- Arson investigation, Obsession, Double life
- Genres
- True Crime, Forensics, Lives in Law Enforcement
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On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fires broke out in two nearby stores.
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Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man respected as one of California's foremost arson investigators, a captain in the Glendale Fire Department ... From Joseph Wambaugh, the critically acclaimed,nationally bestselling author of The Onion Field, comes the astonishing true story of a nightmarish obsession -- and the hunt for a brilliant psychopath who lived a double life filled with professional tributes and terrifying secrets.
Respect and Ruin
A true-crime account drawn to the unsettling distance between professional respect and terrifying secrets.
Come here for
- The uneasy collision of respected expertise and hidden criminality
- A real arson case with lives at stake
Expect
- A grave subject rooted in suspicious fires and homicide
- A true story about an investigator living a double life
Where it sits
| True Crime | 32% |
|---|---|
| Forensics | 31% |
| Lives in Law Enforcement | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in History
- Criminals & Outlaws
- Personal Memoirs
- Criminal Law
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- True Crime
- Espionage
- Murder & Homicide
- Serial Killers
- Authors
- Joseph Wambaugh
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 27, 2003
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Arson investigation · Obsession · Double life
- Reading lane
- Lives in History