Red Tide (31 page)

Authors: G. M. Ford

Tags: #Espionage, #Mass Murder, #Frank (Fictitious character), #Terrorism, #Thrillers, #General, #Corso, #Seattle (Wash.), #Fiction, #Mystery & Detective, #Journalists

PRAISE

“Hands down, one of my favorite contemporary crime writers.”

Dennis Lehane,
New York Times
bestselling author
of
Mystic River
and Shutter Island

Praise for
G.M. FORD,
FRANK CORSO, and
RED TIDE

“A
strong, scrappy writer…[who] keeps the pages turning.”

Detroit News

“I
n the edge-of-your-chair department, look for…
Red Tide
by G.M. Ford.”

San Diego Union-Tribune

“F
ord is wham-bang, straight-laced, no fooling around.”

Denver Post

“F
ord is a stylish and supremely confident writer…Corso [may be] one of the more interesting and durable series heroes around.”

St. Petersburg Times

“F
rank Corso is irresistible, part Sam Spade, part Hunter S. Thompson…You’re in the hands of a superior storyteller.”

Martha C. Lawrence

“P
lenty of page-turning thrills…G.M. Ford has vaulted into the forefront of [crime] writers.”

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“
R
ed Tide
depicts bioterror attacks on the Pacific Norhwest, and it does so in troubling, believable detail…Ford has clearly done his homework. He pulls no punches…Readers may never travel comfortably again on any mass-transit system.”

San Francisco Chronicle

“F
ord’s intelligently constructed story…gathers momentum like a runaway monorail car. You simply can’t get off until the ride is over.”

Booklist
(*Starred Review*)

“G.M.
Ford is a writer of great acuity and power…The real deal.”

Jonathan Kellerman

“[A]
steely-eyed and speedy series.”

Seattle Times

“F
ord hits the ground running with his fourth solid Frank Corso novel…Ford creates likable characters, whom he has the nerve to subject to the worst, no matter how attached the reader has become to them…[He] keeps the pace fast and the characters in the foreground, making this an entertaining read in a dependable series.”

Publishers Weekly

“C
orso is a terrific, unpredictable character worth spending time with.”

Albany Times-Union

“S
eattle takes on more interesting shades from Corso’s darker perspective.”

New York Times Book Review

“T
he action is well-paced…Frank Corso [is] as hard-boiled as his name.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“F
ord is making a deservedly big splash in the genre’s pond.”

Minneapolis Star Tribune

BOOKS BY G. M. FORD

The Frank Corso Series

NO MAN’S LAND

RED TIDE

A BLIND EYE

BLACK RIVER

FURY

The Leo Waterman Series

THE DEADER THE BETTER

LAST DITCH

SLOW BURN

THE BUM’S RUSH

CAST IN STONE

WHO IN HELL IS WANDA FUCA?

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

RED TIDE
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EPub Edition © JUNE 2005 ISBN: 9780061847820

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