num_pages: 496
description: Edgar Award winner Jonathan Kellerman once more explores the corruption of California and produces a novel of complex characterizations and nonstop suspense.Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware was called. Unfortunately, by the time he 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 behind the name and face? A would-be assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky? 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: Esme Ferguson, George C. Scott (Time Bomb), Walt Whitman (The Moving Target), Cesar Chavez (Over the Edge), Maurice Smith, Judy Baumgartner, Horst Wessel (Time Bomb), Beaver Cleaver (Time Bomb), John Kennedy (Time Bomb), Gerald L.K. Smith (Time Bomb), Will and Ariel Durant (Time Bomb), Howard Burden, Isaac 'Ike' Novato, Sophie Gruenberg, William Tell (Time Bomb), Samuel Massengil, Bud Ahlward, Dr. Lance Dobbs, Charles Manson (Blood Test), Terry Crevolin, Albert Schweitzer (Old Black Magic), Patricia Mendez, Joseph Goebbels (Time Bomb), David Sanders, Eldridge Cleaver (Time Bomb), Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton (Time Bomb), Pavlov (Time Bomb), Alex Delaware, DeJon Jonson, Old Elijah, Ralph Lauren (Mortal Prey), Betty Ford (Time Bomb), Moishe Kapoyr (Time Bomb), Norman Rockwell (Silent Partner), Ted Dinwiddie, Detective Mehan, Einstein (The Dead Harlequin), Senator Joseph McCarthy (Time Bomb), Jonathon Swift (Time Bomb), Harpo Marx (Time Bomb), Henry Ford (Time Bomb), Woden (Time Bomb), Nixon (The Reversal), Linda Overstreet, Milo Sturgis, Rick Silverman, Jiddu Krishnamurti (Time Bomb), Eisenhower (Heart of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Bob Wills (Time Bomb), Lieutenant Frisk, Pinocchio (Time Bomb), Stalin (Stalin's Ghost), Paul Bunyan (Time Bomb), Martin Heidegger (Time Bomb), Gordon Latch, Friedrich Engels (Time Bomb), Delano Hardy, Adolf Eichmann (Time Bomb), Milk, Moscone and White (Time Bomb), Steve Hupp, Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan and Matthew, Dylan Thomas (Time Bomb), Armando Bonilla, Mother Teresa (Angel Eyes), Abby and Jerry (Time Bomb), Trotsky (Time Bomb), Reinhard Heydrich and Hermann Goering (Time Bomb), M. Bakunin (Time Bomb), Charles Lindbergh (Along Came a Spider), Fritz Brundage, Cheryl Jane Nuveen, Malcolm Isaac Green, Karl Marx (Time Bomb), Father Coughlin (Time Bomb), Gauguin (Time Bomb), Robin Castagna, Mahlon Burden, Eagleton (Time Bomb), John F. Kennedy (Time Bomb), Henry Blanchard Hoyt, Chairman Mao (Time Bomb), J. Edgar Hoover (Worst Fears Realized), E. Power Biggs (Time Bomb), Clark Kinnaird (Time Bomb), William Shakespeare (Blackfly Season), Snow White (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Farrakhan (Time Bomb), B.F. Skinner (Silent Partner), Patsy Cline (Time Bomb), Fritz Kuhn (Time Bomb), Josef Mengele (Time Bomb), Holly Lynn Burden, Ada Small, Bernhard Goetz (Time Bomb), Sigmund Freud (Someone to Watch Over Me), Jeremiah Johnson (Little White Lies), Buddha (Time Bomb), Lenin (Time Bomb), Mark Twain (Blood Test)
genres: Mystery, Psychology, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 16686
places: Los Angeles, California
series: Alex Delaware
publisher: Ballantine Books