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Written by Peter Blauner - Audio book performed by Joe Mantegna - Abridged Fiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Time Warner Audiobooks (May 1999)

"A remarkable achievement -- I loved it and couldn't put it down." —Stephen King

Exciting and intelligent." —Scott Turow

"A page-turner that moves with the efficiency of a clock on a stick of dynamite toward a heart-racing finale....A stunning tale." —Michael Connelly

"A gifted suspense novelist...who combines topicality, realism, and atmosphere into a compelling reading experience." —Richard Patterson

All his life, schoolteacher David Fitzgerald has wanted to live up to the legacy left by his war-hero father, and one day he gets his chance. There is an explosion on a bus, and in a moment of unexpected courage he saves the life of a student onboard. Suddenly, David is a local celebrity - a capital-h Hero. His son idolizes him. His students listen to him. The President mentions him in a speech. The news crews film him in the classroom. His unremarkable life feels, for a day, extraordinary. But then everything changes. The police begin to suspect that David planted the bomb to make himself heroic. And in the whiplash that follows, he becomes the target of a federal investigation and the prey of the media wolf pack. His home is torn apart, his livelihood is taken away, and he may even lose custody of his son. In the midst of all this, he learns that the real bombers are getting ready to strike again, on a far more deadly scale. David can recover his good name only by tracking them down and stopping them.