If the Fire Bug's true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to apply the necessary pressure? Why does he content himself with burning down a single warehouse, when he could set an entire riverside wharf ablaze? And why firebomb a single sloop, when it would have been just as easy to destroy the whole fleet? In order to answer these questions, Inspector Sam Blackstone - aided by Dr Ellie Carr, a passionate disciple of the new science of criminal pathology - must follow a trail of death and destruction which will lead to the very centre of government itself. And, not for the first time, Blackstone soon realizes that in solving this case, he may well be destroying his own career.
- ISBN10 0727875957
- ISBN13 9780727875952
- Publish Date 1 May 2007 (first published 30 June 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English