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Nine hotshots from Albuquerque, members of an elite team, die while fighting an out of control forest fire in Colorado. Several months later, the agency report blames the fire fighters for their own deaths. Nancy and Eric Barker, the parents of team-member Joni, want Albuquerque lawyer Neil Hamel to clear their daughter's name. Neil does some investigating before she agrees to take the case. Mike Marshall, one of the hotshots who made it out of the canyon, takes Neil and the Barkers back to the site of the fire, on a day when wind and weather conditions approximate those of the day on which the team members died. Another fire springs up and Neil's life is saved by Ramona Franklin, who was the team lookout the day of the first fire. Van Gieson has done her research about forest fires and the prevention and fighting thereof. She raises interesting questions, such as how many smoke jumpers are put at risk while trying to save homes that probably should not have been built in that particular place, and what happens to a marriage when a child is killed but I never felt that any of the characters came alive. Perhaps this, the 6th book in the series, was not the place to start.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, February 2003
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