Terminal
Subtitle: A Burke Novel (Burke Novels)
Publisher: Pantheon; Pantheon Books
Published: September 25, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780375425080
Description: Claude Dremdell, a white supremacist whose sole hope against his terminal illness is a pricy experimental Swiss treatment, ropes Burke into a plot to extort money from three wealthy men who years earlier committed a brutal murder (loosely based on the real-life Martha Moxley case), but were never suspected. Armed with only fragmentary evidence in the form of two checks, Burke turns for help to an Israeli intelligence operation working covertly in the U.S. with superhuman powers of information gathering. Lengthy tirades about the failures of the criminal justice system under the current Bush administration will distract even those who agree with them.