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  • Critical Mass

  • V. I. Warshawski, Book 16
  • Written by: Sara Paretsky
  • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
  • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
  • 2.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Written by: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
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Publisher's Summary

The brilliant V. I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes.

V. I. Warshawski’s closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kitty’s daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who in turn summons V. I. to help. The daughter’s troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies, secrets, and silence, whose origins go back to the mad competition among America, Germany, Japan, and England to develop the first atomic bomb. The secrets are old, but the people who continue to guard them today will not let go without a fight.
©2013 Sara Paretsky (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
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.“Both Paretsky and the sharp-tongued justice-seeker, V. I. Warshawski, remain formidable. . . . V. I. reigns as crime fiction’s spiky, headstrong warrior woman of conscience, and Paretsky, classy champion of the powerless, has never been more imaginative, rueful, transfixing, and righteous.” ( Booklist)

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  • 2019-08-02

I would not recommend

There are too many intricacies and characters, the story tries too hard to be interesting, but it isn’t entertaining at all. Language is pretty poor and metaphors forced.
I wish I didn’t have to rate a book so poorly, but it’s not worth the money or audible credit.

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