Booklist Reviews
Dr. Frannie O'Neill hasn't recovered from her husband's brutal murder only months earlier. When handsome FBI agent Kit Harrison rents a cabin from her, Frannie is almost too grief-stricken to notice. Then one night, as Frannie is driving home, she sees a small girl--flying! She's shocked and intrigued, but when she tells Kit about the child, he's unsurprised. The girl is part of the case he's secretly working on. A group of scientists is determined to create a genetically superior "superrace" at a secret lab hidden in the Colorado mountains--which Kit is desperately trying to find--and the flying child is one of their successes. But their failures are unbelievably horrifying. Unfortunately, creating a superrace will guarantee huge profits and a place in history to whoever succeeds, so the scientists have no intention of stopping their research. Kit and Frannie eventually catch the little bird-girl, who's been injured in an attempt to flee the lab. Her tales of what the "bad men" are doing is enough to renew Kit's--and now Frannie's--commitment to stopping the scientists. No matter that this story is way past far-fetched; Patterson can make a believer out of anyone. He is an extremely talented and wildly popular author who writes the kind of gripping, suspense-driven thriller that makes it easy for readers to suspend disbelief. The one-million-copy first printing is probably not overstated; high demand is both guaranteed and deserved. ((Reviewed August 1998)) Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews
Library Journal Reviews
Still mourning her dead husband, veterinarian Frannie O'Neill makes an awful discovery near her hospital. What's more, an FBI agent is tapping at her door. Copyright 1998 Library Journal Reviews