num_pages: 384
description: Creasy thought he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong. An American soldier of fortune far from home -- alcoholic, burnt out, and broken down -- Creasy has accepted a job as a bodyguard just for something to do. An emotionally dead, one-time warrior, he knows that nothing can pierce the hard shell he's built around himself -- until the little girl he's been hired to protect somehow breaks through. But having something to care about again in making Creasy vulnerable. And when the unthinkable occurs, a man on fire won't just burn ... he'll explode.
language: English
title: Man on Fire
titlecomplete: Man on Fire
characters: Creasy
genres: Fiction, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Media Tie In, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Novels, Crime
ratings_count: 3964
series: Creasy
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: CWA New Blood Dagger, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Avon Books