Killer Weekend        Cut and Run        Diary of Ellen Rimbauer        Parallel Lies        Chain of Evidence        Hard Fall        Probable Cause        Seizing of Yankee Green        Blood of the Albatross        Never Look Back

"Hard Fall is a gripping thriller, loaded with the forensic detail we have come to expect from the author...." * Read reviews... HARD FALL (paperback) Ridley Pearson, author of the national best sellers Undercurrents and Probable Cause, returns with his most gripping forensic thriller yet: a masterful high-tech, high-pressure novel that will confirm his place among today's best writers of suspense. 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. Hard Fall is a breathlessly paced thriller, an intellectual and technical game of cat and mouse, and a modern classic of suspense fiction. * Valerie Ryan, Seattle Times Buy the book from an independent bookstore or Amazon.