Synopses & Reviews
Some die, some live. . .some are trapped in-between.
Nine firefighters lost their lives when the Dead Horse Paint Company burned to the ground. Mac Fontana survived the conflagration--and then ran as far as he could from the smoke and the screams and the memories. But it wasn't far enough.
Three years later, those lethal flames have come roaring back to life to sear and blister Mac Fontana, now the Fire chief in tiny Staircase, Washington. The charred corpse of Ed Callahan--the despised former Deputy Chief whose inept handling of the famous blaze hastened the death of nine brave men--has been discovered in Fontana's jurisdiction. Everyone who was burned by the Dead Horse nightmare has good reasons for wanting Callahan dead. . .and that includes Chief Fontana himself. Now Mac's running days are over. the time has come for him to face up to the heat of a terrible past. . .before a killer obliterates his future.
Synopsis
Earl Emerson's fifth Mac Fontana mystery is an explosive tale of murder and revenge set in the breathtaking milieu of professional firefighting.
Three years ago -- before he became Fire Chief in tiny Staircase, Washington -- Mac Fontana survived a lethal fire at Detroit's Dead Horse Paint Company. Former Deputy Chief Ed Callahan's inept handling of the blaze cost nine brave firefighters their lives. Now Callahan has been brutally murdered -- his charred corpse turning up in the trunk of a burning car in the middle of a snow-covered Washington field -- and Chief Fontana is a prime suspect, forced to confront the demons of his own haunted past in his search for the real killer.
About the Author
Earl Emerson lives in North Bend, Washington.