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Meet Darwin Minor, insurance accident reconstructionist, which means Dar uses computer graphics to prove how accidents really oocur, and wheter there are claims to be filed. The day begins at 4:00 a.m. when Dar is called to a scene where a car literally climbed a cliff, scattering body parts of the driver as it was flying. Dar proves that this accident was not a fraud, and as he is heading home, a Mercedes starts following him. Gunmen start shooting at him and the chase is on to find out why. When Dar is arrested for forcing the Mercedes off the road at a biker hangout, a federal officer intervenes to get Dar to help uncover a large insurance scam involving illegals, doctors, lawyers and other assorted white collar criminals. More attempts are made on Dar's life, especially when he proves that one of the lawyers for this group was murdered by a pair of construction scissors falling on this person crushing him to pieces. Then there is a scene where Dar, Syd Olsen, the head of the Fraud investigative team, are in a glider soaring when a helicopter with a Mafia hitman starts shooting at them. The author went over the top here showing how a glider pilot with Dar's skills outmanueverd a helicopter forcing the copter to crash into the mountains, while Dar and Syd parachuted to safety. The book pick up a few points using the old thriller mystique of the lone hero battling a group of villains at the end where Dar and Syd have to outlast a group of Russian Mafia hitmen, two of them professionals from Afghanistan, who are sent to end their interference. Simmons evidently researched the sniper angle because the reader learns about wind velocity, range accuracy with different weapons, and how a sniper has to keep complete inner control for the rifle to become a part of him. This book is not for everyone, as there is a conspiracy theme, thriller scenes that are so over the top that they seem implausible, and a little mystery involving why Dar is being selected as the assassins' target.
Reviewed by Steven M. Sill, January 2003
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