num_pages: 468
description: Edgar Award winner Jonathan Kellerman once more explores the corruption of California and produces a novel of complex characterizations and nonstop suspense. "Scythe-sharp...a great, good read." 'Daily News,' New York.  He was called but, by the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school, the damage was done. A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. "Though a time bomb is ticking away at the heart of this novel, readers will forget to watch the clock once they begin it." 'Chicago Sun Times.' While the TV news crews feasted on the scene, Alex began his therapy sessions with the traumatized children. But he couldn't escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversized rifle. What was the identity behind the name and face - a would-be assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky? "Virtually impossible to put aside until the final horrifying showdown." 'People.' Intrigued by a request from the sniper's father to conduct a "psychological autopsy" of his child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern of innocence, neglect, and loss. Then suddenly it is more than a pattern, it is a trail of blood. In the dead sniper's past was a dark and vicious plot. And in Alex Delaware's future is the stuff of grown-up nightmares: the face of real human evil.
language: English
title: Time Bomb
titlecomplete: Time Bomb (Alex Delaware, #5)
characters: Henry Blanchard Hoyt, Patsy Cline (Time Bomb), Samuel Massengil, Mother Teresa (Angel Eyes), Jiddu Krishnamurti (Time Bomb), Linda Overstreet, Adolf Eichmann (Time Bomb), Einstein (The Dead Harlequin), Pinocchio (Time Bomb), Walt Whitman (The Moving Target), Stalin (Stalin's Ghost), B.F. Skinner (Silent Partner), DeJon Jonson, Farrakhan (Time Bomb), Gerald L.K. Smith (Time Bomb), Milk, Moscone and White (Time Bomb), Beaver Cleaver (Time Bomb), Eagleton (Time Bomb), Cesar Chavez (Over the Edge), Maurice Smith, Paul Bunyan (Time Bomb), Karl Marx (Time Bomb), Bob Wills (Time Bomb), Reinhard Heydrich and Hermann Goering (Time Bomb), Eldridge Cleaver (Time Bomb), Henry Ford (Time Bomb), Robin Castagna, Old Elijah, Woden (Time Bomb), Father Coughlin (Time Bomb), Trotsky (Time Bomb), Lieutenant Frisk, Esme Ferguson, Josef Mengele (Time Bomb), John Kennedy (Time Bomb), Sophie Gruenberg, Dylan Thomas (Time Bomb), Harpo Marx (Time Bomb), George C. Scott (Time Bomb), E. Power Biggs (Time Bomb), Cheryl Jane Nuveen, Betty Ford (Time Bomb), Sigmund Freud (Someone to Watch Over Me), Jeremiah Johnson (Little White Lies), Isaac 'Ike' Novato, Malcolm Isaac Green, Delano Hardy, Horst Wessel (Time Bomb), Bud Ahlward, Holly Lynn Burden, Rick Silverman, M. Bakunin (Time Bomb), Gordon Latch, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Time Bomb), Buddha (Time Bomb), John F. Kennedy (Time Bomb), Ralph Lauren (Mortal Prey), Mark Twain (Blood Test), Milo Sturgis, Chairman Mao (Time Bomb), Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan and Matthew, Norman Rockwell (Silent Partner), Abby and Jerry (Time Bomb), Fritz Kuhn (Time Bomb), Martin Heidegger (Time Bomb), Lenin (Time Bomb), Alex Delaware, Terry Crevolin, Armando Bonilla, Charles Lindbergh (Along Came a Spider), William Shakespeare (Blackfly Season), Steve Hupp, William Tell (Time Bomb), Snow White (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Dr. Lance Dobbs, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton (Time Bomb), Moishe Kapoyr (Time Bomb), Ted Dinwiddie, Joseph Goebbels (Time Bomb), Ada Small, Jonathon Swift (Time Bomb), Fritz Brundage, Charles Manson (Blood Test), Gauguin (Time Bomb), J. Edgar Hoover (Worst Fears Realized), Friedrich Engels (Time Bomb), David Sanders, Bernhard Goetz (Time Bomb), Patricia Mendez, Nixon (The Reversal), Pavlov (Time Bomb), Albert Schweitzer (Old Black Magic), Eisenhower (Heart of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Will and Ariel Durant (Time Bomb), Mahlon Burden, Judy Baumgartner, Howard Burden, Detective Mehan, Clark Kinnaird (Time Bomb)
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, Psychology, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 16689
places: Los Angeles, California
series: Alex Delaware
publisher: Bantam