num_pages: 416
description: On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fires broke out in two nearby stores. Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man respected as one of California's foremost arson investigators, a captain in the Glendale Fire Department ... From Joseph Wambaugh, the critically acclaimed,nationally bestselling author of The Onion Field , comes the astonishing true story of a nightmarish obsession -- and the hunt for a brilliant psychopath who lived a double life filled with professional tributes and terrifying secrets.
language: English
title: Fire Lover
titlecomplete: Fire Lover
genres: Law, Thriller, Biography, Crime, Suspense, Mystery, Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Firefighters
ratings_count: 2226
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks