Title: Blown Away
Author: G.M. Ford
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Publisher: Harper Collins
Copyright: 2006
ISBN: 0060874414
Pages: 315
Keywords: mystery
Reading period: 28 August, 2007

Blown Away is the latest in Ford's series about Frank Corso, investigative reporter, bestselling author, and abrasive jerk. Corso is pressed by his publisher to look into a year-old case in Pennsylvania where a victim was sent into a bank with a bomb chained around his neck, then blown up in the parking lot when he was pinned down by the police. Corso's questions provoke a couple of assaults upon himself, and then the FBI drag him to Los Angeles, where a series of identical bank robberies is taking place.

This is a fast-paced, well-written thriller, with a somewhat improbable plot, culminating in a harrowing finale.

Recommended.