Purity in Death
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Plot Summary of Purity in Death
" Berkley, September 2002, 7.99, 384 pp. ISBN 042518630x The summer of 2059 in New York is brutal and tempers are flaring over trifling things. The New York Police and Security Department are kept busy leading to Lieutenant Eve Dallas reaching the end of her rope. When Louis Cogburn, a low level drug dealer who sells to children, suddenly goes berserk killing someone and injuring another person before he dies Eve catches the case. At the scene of the blood bath she notices that on Louis's computer is the message “ABSOLUTE PURITY ACHIEVED”. She orders the computer brought to headquarters where an officer specializing in computers examines it. Eight hours later the officer goes berserk, killing a peer and injuring another before he's killed. Eve immediately realizes that a virus on the computer is being passed on to humans, causing them to die. The Purity Seekers, an organization dedicated to destroying those who hurt the innocents takes credit for Louis's death. When a pediophile is found dead with the same message on it as Louis received, Eve realizes she has to smoke out the terrorists fast before they mete out their own brand of vigilante justice. This is the fifteenth in the Death series and it is as fresh and innovative as the first book in this ongoing saga. The characters are growing and evolving with readers liking even the secondary cast almost as much as they adore the hero and heroine. In PURITY IN DEATH, the heroine's husband provides technical advice to Eve, but this time she figures out who the terrorists are and brings them to justice. J.D. Robb has written another fantastic futuristic romantic thriller. Harriet Klausner Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. " Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
"In the 14th installment of the "In Death" series featuring Eve Dallas, Eve is stymied by some unusual deaths of people known to be blights on society. While searching for those responsible, she deals with some unforseen consequences. The deaths and injuries hit close to home, and she and her husband, Roarke, vigorously debate the merits of vigilantism. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. " Ntombi A. Peters, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Purity in Death

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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%

Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story: - near future
Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: - preventing/finding assassin
What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 60%
Kind of investigator - police procedural, American
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Any non-mystery subplot? - life in that culture
Crime Thriller Yes
Who's the terrorist enemy here? - generic terrorists
Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 20's-30's
How much violence does he/she use? - just the right amount
Ethnicity/Race - White/American
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some - an average amount
Motive of antagonist - revenge - power
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: - New York

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment - moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths? - 3-4 - 5-7
Sex Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex - descript. of breasts - descript. of male nudity
A lot of techno jargon? Yes
Unusual forms of death - perforation--swords/knives - blunt clubbing (like seals)
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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