Ridley Pearson: Hard Fall (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
The tragic bombing of EuroTours Flight 1023 was big news. To FBI Agent Cam Daggett it was more than that. It was personal. His parents and son were on that plane. And for two years he's been after the killer who did it. All he has to go on is a name: Anthony Kort... and the knowledge that Kort is in the United States with a detonator no airport security can detect.

HE MUST BE STOPPED.

Daggett's colleagues at the Bureau and his girlfriend tell him his vendetta has become an obsession. They suggest he leave the investigation to other agents, in order to keep it objective. But having painstakingly constructed a portrait of the terrorist, Daggett believes he's now the only one with any chance of predicting Kort's next target.

A novel of madness and revenge, Hard Fall begs readers to fasten their seatbelts.

Ridley Pearson: Hard Fall. Hyperion Books, ISBN: 078689007X (June, 2001), 402 p., $5.99.

Ridley Pearson: Hard Fall (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
FIRST THERE WAS LOCKERBIE.
THEN EUROTOUR'S FLIGHT 1023.
NOW THE BOMBER IS READY TO STRIKE AGAIN!
The bombing of Eurotours flight 1023 was big news. To FBI agent Cam Daggett it was more than that. It was personal. His parents and son were on that plane. And for two years he's been after the killer who did it. All he has is a name: Anthony Kort . . .and the knowledge that Kort is in the United States with a detonator no airport security can detect.

HE MUST BE STOPPED.
Cam's colleagues at the Bureau and his girlfriend tell him to get behind a desk, to leave the investigation to other agents. But Cam has painstakingly built a portrait of the terrorist, and he alone has a snowball's chance in hell of predicting Kort's next target. Except hell is a much kinder, gentler place than where Cam's headed -- into Kort's depraved world of madness and revenge.

Ridley Pearson: Hard Fall. Dell / Island Books, ISBN: 0440212626 (October, 1992), 403 p., $5.99.

Ridley Pearson: Hard Fall (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
FBI agent Cameron Daggett has for years been on the trail of an international triggerman responsible for planting at least two nearly undetectable explosive devices on airplanes. When a strange murder takes place in a Seattle aircraft training installation, Daggett suspects that his nemesis is involved.

The man who was murdered was a specialist in training pilots to fly the Duhning 959-600 -- a new breed of ultra-sophisticated aircraft -- and he was killed in a Duhning flight simulator. Was the killer trying to be taught to pilot one of these super jets? How is this connected to Daggett's recent discovery of sophisticated altitude detonators? Is Anthony Kort -- Daggett's prey -- about to strike again?

Using the most intricate and complex forensic techniques, the aerodynamic and technical principles that make monster jets stay aloft, and sheer cop's reasoning -- Daggett picks up Kort's trail. He is joined by forensic experts, aerodynamic engineers, and criminal psychologists -- but it comes down to Daggett and Daggett alone to see the pattern in the seemingly endless technical detail, and stop a tragedy before it takes place. But Kort is smart, and driven by a motivation that Daggett cannot possibly understand. And when Daggett gets close, Kort makes it personal.

Ridley Pearson: Hard Fall. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 0385301383 (January, 1992), 402 p., $20.00.