Author: Robert Pobi
Series: Lucas Page #2
Genre: Suspense
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Released: August 4, 2020
Purchase Link: Amazon
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Special thanks to Minotaur Books for a copy of this book.
A series of deadly explosions rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the FBI turns once again to Dr. Lucas Page in Robert Pobi's Under Pressure.
Review:
A tech company has rented out the Guggenheim Museum for a private event when a massive explosion kills the over seven hundred attendees. The staggering number of victims makes the investigation a nightmare so Special Agent Brett Kehoe calls in help. Former FBI Agent Dr. Lucas Page is now a anti-social university professor and astrophysicist - a whiz at numbers and much needed computational power with a special gift of visualizing crime scenes. While he wants nothing to do with the investigation, his city is under attack and so he relents and joins the team.
Under Pressure is an intense, compulsive story that I had trouble putting down. While the villain claims he attacked because of his belief that technology is destroying the world, investigators feel sure there's more to it. Page knows the truth is always in the numbers and so he follows the money trail. The story unfolds at a fast, driving pace with witty characters and riveting action. While this is book 2 in the Lucas Page series, I found the author offers enough backstory to pick this one up as a standalone. Having said that, my plans are to backtrack to book one and then work my way through the series. Highly recommended to fans of mystery, suspense and thrillers.
Synopsis:
On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the night, instantly killing 702 people, including every single attendee—yet the damage to the building itself was minimal.
An explosion of that precision was no accident and, in response, the FBI mobilizes its entire team -- but the sheer number of victims strains their resources. Were all 702 victims in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was there only one target and 701 unlucky bystanders? That many victim files is a staggering amount of data to sort through and Brett Kehoe, Special Agent in Charge of Manhattan, decides that he can't do this without more computational power.
Dr. Lucas Page, astrophysicist, university professor, and former FBI agent, is uniquely gifted for the task at hand—he can visualize a crime scene as if he was a bystander and can break down any set of data at a glance. Even though Page wants nothing to do with the FBI, with his city under attack and his family at risk, he steps in to find a killer in a haystack before they strike again.
An explosion of that precision was no accident and, in response, the FBI mobilizes its entire team -- but the sheer number of victims strains their resources. Were all 702 victims in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was there only one target and 701 unlucky bystanders? That many victim files is a staggering amount of data to sort through and Brett Kehoe, Special Agent in Charge of Manhattan, decides that he can't do this without more computational power.
Dr. Lucas Page, astrophysicist, university professor, and former FBI agent, is uniquely gifted for the task at hand—he can visualize a crime scene as if he was a bystander and can break down any set of data at a glance. Even though Page wants nothing to do with the FBI, with his city under attack and his family at risk, he steps in to find a killer in a haystack before they strike again.
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