Awards

• Winner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Fact Crime) 2003

Overview

On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fires broke out in two nearby stores. Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man respected as one of California's foremost arson investigators, a captain in the Glendale Fire Department ... From Joseph Wambaugh, the critically acclaimed,nationally bestselling author of The Onion Field, comes the astonishing true story of a nightmarish obsession -- and the hunt for a brilliant psychopath who lived a double life filled with professional tributes and terrifying secrets.

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Reviews

PRAISE FOR FIRE LOVER: .lines converge in a sock-'em-between-the-eyes revelation.A barn burner. -- Arthur Salm, San Diego Union-Tribune

PRAISE FOR FIRE LOVER: . ..lines converge in a sock-'em-between-the-eyes revelation...A barn burner. --Arthur Salm, San Diego Union-Tribune

PRAISE FOR FIRE LOVER: lines converge in a sock- em-between-the-eyes revelation A barn burner. --Arthur Salm, San Diego Union-Tribune

PRAISE FOR FIRE LOVER: ""...lines converge in a sock-'em-between-the-eyes revelation...A barn burner."" -- Arthur Salm, San Diego Union-Tribune

Author Information

Joseph Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective sergeant, is the New York Times bestselling author of The Onion Field, The Blooding, The Choirboys, and many other fiction and nonfiction works. He has won a number of awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe award and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for investigative journalism. He lives with his wife in California.

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