Title: Firetrap
Author: Earl Emerson
Publication Year: 2007
Synopsis: The Z Club, and illegal club in Seattle catches fire and burns down. Lost in the fire are more than a dozen people, all of them African American. Trey Brown, a captain in the Seattle fire department, gets assigned to look into the mess with reporter Jamie Estevez. The city explodes into sides, was the Z club ignored because of the race issue or was it just a series of unfortunate events?
Earl Emerson is a firefighter in Seattle, so he is writing what he knows. And it is fantastic. He weaves areas of Seattle into the storytelling with a vividness that actually allows you to visualize where the characters are in the city, especially if you've been there. His characters are likable and life-like.
The story is a bit hard to follow, I'll admit. The story jumps back and forth between Trey and Jamie's POV, and sometimes that makes it hard to follow. It also flips into other characters POVs as well, so you might want to make a map to see how everyone is involved.
It's worth the mental involvement you have to put it, though, to read your way through the tangled storyline. Delve into Trey Brown's past and figure out how he's related to the city's top politicians.
The Reader's rating: 6.5 out of 10 books
Amazon Link: Firetrap, a novel of suspense
Related Books you may enjoy: Into the Inferno by Earl Emerson
And so I ask you, how would you react if you found yourself seemingly trapped in a burning building?
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Oh, lord. Don't know if I could read this one. I live in a place where the race issue poisons every other crime and I'd probably just get frustrated.
Loved this book; I didn't have a problem with the changes in character POV. And race, while an issue that is raised, is hardly all there is to this story. Family bonds are the real story here, and when and what can destroy those bonds.
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