Dead Aim (Ulverscroft Large Print) (Eve Duncan)

by Iris Johansen

A celebrated photojournalist, Alex Graham has recorded some of the most tragic and heartbreaking of stories, but her latest assignment has forced her across a dangerous line. At a dam collapse in Arapahoe Junction, Colorado, Alex witnesses a conspiracy that will shock the nation. For the collapse of the Arapahoe Dam was not an accident. The official story is just a cover-up for a truth so frightening, so unthinkable, that anyone who threatens to reveal it must be silenced. Forever. Alex's only ally is an ex-covert commando with a checkered past, a price on his head and a deadly assassin at his heels. What happens when a reporter does more than just report? What happens when she becomes involved in the story? She ends up marked for death by an enemy who never misses, by those who’ve already got her centred . . . dead aim.

• ISBN10: 0330419412
• ISBN13: 9780330419413
• Publish Date: 7 January 2005 (first published 1 January 2003)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 27 March 2009
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Pan Books
• Edition: Unabridged edition
• Format: Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

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While not technically part of a series, this book contains some characters that are parts of Johansen’s other series/books: John Logan, Sarah and Monty, and President Andreas. I think a few of the others are also recurring characters, but since this is only the 3rd Johansen book I’ve read, I don’t know for sure.

Anyway, this was just okay for me. I found Alex to be laughably naive for a world-traveling news photographer, and her naiveté is heavily acknowledged in the book, but it’s just not believable. And the conspiracy was wrapped up a little too neatly at the end. I would have liked the book to be a little more about Morgan than about Alex, and for there to be a little less character name-dropping (how many times does Elena’s pregnancy have to be brought up? She’s never even a direct character in the book!)