title: Demolition Angel: A Novel
author:  Robert Crais 
description: A flammable techno-thriller with the kind of force that knocks out windows.<br /><i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /><b><br /></b>"Packs an explosive punch. Though the pace of the book moves like a quick-burning fuse, Crais still takes the time in <i>Demolition Angel</i> to sketch out some memorable characters: Starkey, haunted and hollow-eyed, covering up her pain with a Bogart-tough demeanor; and John Michael Fowles (aka Mr. Red), a sociopath who gets all sorts of information from the Internet without breaking a sweat. . . . Crais keeps things wound so tight that readers will be getting paper cuts in their rush to finish this one.<br /><i>The Denver Post<br /></i><br />The final pages can hardly be turned fast enough, and the climactic violence is tempered masterfully with a sweet irony.<br /><i>The San Diego Union-Tribune<br /></i><br /><br /><b><i><br /></i></b>
zlib_text: > > Demolition Angel (2001)
  
  > > Crais, Robert
  
    
  Published:
  
  
  2010
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Demolition Angel (2001)
  
  Robert Crais
  
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  PROLOGUE:
  
  To be disrupted: when the human body is blown apart as by the pressure force
  of a bomb.
  
  \--GRADWOHIS LEGAL MEDICINE
  
  CODE THREE ROLL OUT--BOMB SQUAD, SILVER LAKE, CALIFORNIA
  
  CHARLIE RIGGIO STARED at the cardboard box sitting beside the Dumpster. It was
  a Jolly Green Giant box, with what appeared to be a crumpled brown paper bag
  sticking up through the top. The box was stamped GREEN BEANS. Neither Riggio
  nor the two uniformed officers with him approached closer than the corner of
  the strip mall there on Sunset Boulevard; they could see the box fine from
  where they were.
  
  "How long has it been there?"
  
  One of the Adam car officers, a Filipino named Ruiz, checked his watch.
  
  "We got our dispatch about two hours ago. We been here since."
  
  "Find anyone who saw how it got there?"
  
  "Oh, no, dude. Nobody."
  
  The other officer, a black guy named Mason, nodded.
  
  "Ru