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| Plot Summary of Free Fall |
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"Suspended FBI agent Mark Beamon is hunting for the killer of Tristan Newberry, a recent government hire working in an obscure Dept. of Agriculture archival warehouse sorting declassified documents. The authorities say the murderer is Darby Moore, a twenty seven-year old world-class rock climber who was Newberry's best friend and it was she that hacked him to death with an ice axe. Beamon working outside his normal capacity with the Bureau is being paid $300,000 to locate her for an anonymous party. The money will be needed to pay for his defense against charges that threaten to put him in prison. His search is taking him from Washington, DC to rural Maryland, West Virginia, Wyoming, and to Bangkok, Thailand.
Beamon is uneasy about the fact third party Presidential candidate David Hallorin, a Senator from Maine, keeps popping up in his investigation. Equally unsettling is his meeting with Roland Peck, a quirky, young red headed associate who runs Hallorin's business empire. And who hired rival rock climber Vili Marcek to find Darby? Someone wants her found more than this crime would warrant and Beamon's gut instinct tells him that he's being played. The only person he can trust is his good friend and former Bureau “big wig” Tom Sherman.
Hallorin is able to move up in the polls to almost even with Republican candidate Senator Robert Taylor just days before the election. Darby managed to leave the country but Beamon finds her in a fetid Thai jail cell contemplating suicide. He learns that Newberry stole a file from the archives that may have cost him his life and it now appears to be the motivation for the killing of people close to Darby as only she knows where the file is now hidden. Beamon and Darby must trek through snowy conditions in Wyoming to retrieve this dangerous file before they can return to Washington to try to find the answer as to who is behind the killings."
David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%
Tone of story
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
- present (2000-2010)
Kind of investigator
- police procedural, American
Any non-mystery subplot?
- politics
Crime Thriller
Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental:
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
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
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- physically sick
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- deluded
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
Motive of antagonist
- power
The antagonists are:
- evil politicians
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Washington D.C.
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Part of a series?
Yes
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
How many deaths?
- 8 or more
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
- exploded into bits
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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