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Pyro eBooks
by EARL EMERSON
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Pyro Summary
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1. THE PIANO MOVER FROM HELL Life has been a rocky road since that morning nineteen years ago when my brother and I killed Alfred. For want of a better term, the police said Alfred was our mother?s boyfriend, but we never thought of him as anything but an interloper, not until the moment Neil and I found our sneakers stuck to the floor in his blood. The morning of the murders my brother was eight days shy of his thirteenth birthday. I was ten. The papers called it an execution-style slaying, and it was partially due to their distorted portrayal of the event that my brother was tried and sentenced and packed away to a long series of increasingly harsher juvenile detention facilities. We made some mistakes that morning. Not that, given the same circumstances, we wouldn?t kill Alfred again. Because we would. In later years, our memories pasted over with hope and optimism, we decided that last drunken squabble between our mother and Alfred T. Osbourne started because Mother had been on the cusp of throwing him out. Maybe she?d found the gumption to do so. We certainly wanted to believe it. She?d never be able to tell us, since she died that morning too. We had thought life was about as bad as it could get until Alfred and his stinky feet and seminal flashes of madness came along. He was meaner than a boot full of barbed wire, and more often than not Neil was the object of this meanness. It was a testament to Neil?s courage that he didn?t run away. ?I?m not leaving him with you and Mother. That is not an option. You just remember where we keep Uncle Oren?s Spanish Civil War revolver if we ever need it.? ?I know where.? When she wasn?t drinking, our mother was too fragile to look out for the family, and when she was drinking, she was too drunk. Neil was the one who looked out for us. He?d been in that role for years. It was mystifying how our mother ended up with two men of such dif |
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In his pulse-pounding thrillers, Earl Emerson takes readers into the heart of the world's most dangerous profession, where the next alarm might bring sudden death. Based on stunning, actual events in the author's life, this electrifying new novel is a frightening duel between a Seattle firefighter and a man who wants to burn him down. . . . To a firefighter, there's nothing worse than a nuisance arsonist. His multiple fires keep a station up at night, running in circles, and more vulnerable at the next "real" call. And in Seattle, Lt. Paul Wollf of the Station Six's ladder truck hates a pyro more than most. Two decades before, an arsonist's fire killed Wolff's firefighter father, sending his mother into a spiral of depression and triggering a chain of events that left his brother in jail for murder and Wollf alone, seething in anger and isolation. Already disciplined for punching out a superior officer, Wollf is now taking a young female firefighter under his wing. Despite the stationhouse leers and jokes, Wollf is only doing what comes naturally, helping out an underdog and bucking the system. But soon he and Cindy Rideout find themselves in a fierce political battle inside the department, just as a pyro starts to turn Seattle into his private little hell. With fires springing up across the city, Wollf begins to see a pattern. The fires being set are coming closer and closer to Station Six. And when a crucial piece of evidence turns up, Wollf suspects the unthinkable: this pyro has turned him into a fiery target. In Paul Wollf, Earl Emerson has created a hero on the brink. For when the pyro's rampage puts Wollf in the public limelight, Wollf must choose between his burning rage and the chance to step back-for once-and see a shocking truth hidden beyond the heat. From the Hardcover edition. |
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