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It's winter and Frank Corso finds himself in a snow-covered town in Pennsylvania asking questions about an unsolved bank robbery that occurred the previous year. A local man was wired with a bomb by an unknown person, sent into the bank to get the money, and then detonated after he left the bank. The local investigation lasted about a week, and the FBI came to town and lasted about the same amount of time. No one seems interested in finding out what happened. Including Frank Corso. Apparently, Corso, an ex-journalist and now a true crime writer, has just signed a new contract with a new publisher for lots of money. Part of the contract is that he must take story suggestions from the publisher. When he says he doesn't want to do it, he is threatened with a multi-million dollar lawsuit, so he agrees to stay. The publisher is sending out a researcher to help him. Carl Letzo is a reporter for the local paper. He shows Frank the stories from the investigation. Carl had been taken off the story after a short while and the society reporter took over. Frank wants to know why. The local bomb squad claims it took them nine minutes to get to the site but witnesses say that Nathan Marino sat in front of the bank for 20 minutes, being blown up just minutes before the bomb squad arrived. Letzo had been looking into this. What is the town trying to keep hidden? Frank is really getting tired of this town. Two men attack him in his hotel room and when that is unsuccessful, his SUV is run off the road into a lake in freezing temperatures. Corso barely survives, and when he gets back to his hotel, he meets Chris Andriatta, the researcher. Shortly thereafter, the feds arrive and take Frank and Chris to LA where a series of bank robberies are occurring. The robberies have the same MO as the one in Pennsylvania. Ford starts with a very small premise: Frank Corso has to write a story he doesn't want to, and builds an exciting book around this. The book is based on an unsolved case from 2003 and, although some perpetrators are brought to justice in the book, the ending is a killer.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, December 2006
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