CSI Miami: Right to Die

by Jeff Mariotte

Published 1 September 2008
Adrug buy goes bad, an innocent bystander is fatally shot, and a local gang blames their rivals and vows vengeance. Unless Horatio Caine and his team can fnd out who was the shooter, they are going to have a gang war on their hands. Meanwhile a domestic terrorist who goes by the name of 'Baby Boomer' blows up the home of a prominent Miami doctor, and the Feds are asking Caine to help them locate the bomber. The team is stretched to the limit with these two high-profile cases, both of them in the unrelenting glare of the media spotlight...

Right to Die

by Jeff Mariotte

Published 7 October 2008
A young man is killed in Miami's Bicentennial Park. Two shots -- one a through-and-through -- and on his body a quantity of coke is found. It would be easy to mark down his killing as gang related or a drug deal gone bad. While the simplest explanation may be the best, it does not follow that it is always true. There is something about the angles of the bullets that killed him that are off...and why take his gun and money, and leave the drugs? And who would have the skill to carry all of this out without leaving a path in the grass?

A serial bomber has been spreading terror across the western states. The FBI has been on his trail for years, but always one day too late, leaving frustrated agents to sweep through bombed sites, looking for leads. A search of an Albuquerque motel and its Dumpsters has led the agent-in-charge to Miami, hoping this time he will not need the services of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. A bomb set in a house kills a doctor and all of his family. If this is the same bomber, he has changed his pattern. Why? Does he feel more comfortable here in Miami? Lieutenant Horatio Caine is going to find him, and make sure the only comfort the bomber finds is offered by the state -- in jail.