Rage Factor

bounty Hunter Dixie Flannigan Is Well Acquainted With The Difference Between Law And Justice. But Not Even She Can Believe A Sleaze Like Lawrence Riley Coombs, On Trial For A Sadistic Rape, Will Walk—especially After Jumping Bail And Attacking Her When She Went To Bring Him In. But A Jury Sets Him Free, And Before Dixie Can Even Stifle Her Outrage, She Learns That A Vigilante Group Has Abducted Coombs And Given Him A Brutal Taste Of His Own Medicine. dixie Can't Help Wondering If The Attack Involved Her Friend Assistant Da Brenda Benson, Threatened By Coombs As He Strolled Out Of The Courtroom. And When Dixie Can't Help Wondering, Dixie Can't Help Investigating. As The Vigilantes Strike Again, She Learns That These Outlaw Avengers Risk Spinning Out Of Control—and At Least One Of Them Will Go To Any Length To Protect Their Mission. And Worse—dixie Doesn't Know There's Someone Else Targeting Her: Someone Who Likes His Revenge Slow And Painful.... publishers Weekly in A Tale With The Impact Of A Blunt Instrument, Houston Bounty Hunter Dixie Flannigan (bitch Factor) Becomes The Hunted. After Hauling In Sexual Sadist Lawrence Coombs To Stand Trial For Rape, And Getting A Broken Ankle In The Process, Dixie Is Appalled When The Jury Lets The Man Walk. A Vigilante Group Called Avenging Angels--perhaps Including One Of Dixie's Best Friends--viciously Attacks Coombs. Mistakenly Believing That Dixie Is One Of The Angels, The Sadist Vows Revenge On The Bounty Hunter. Dixie, Meanwhile, Agrees To Act As Bodyguard To Sarina Page, Daughter Of A Tv Star Who Is Visiting Houston Despite Threatening Notes From A Stalker. To Complicate Matters, Dixie Must Balance Her Job With Her Developing Relationship With Parker Dann, The Hunk Who Was Her Quarry In Her First Novel And Who Now Worries That Her Work Is Too Dangerous. Although Gutsy Dixie Is Undeniably Engaging, Her Adventures This Time Out Suffer From Slow-moving Subplots. Rogers's Handling Of Violence Remains Sharp, However, And The Climactic Showdown Scene Between Dixie And Coombs Is A Knockout. (feb.) Bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan is well acquainted with the difference between law and justice. But not even she can believe a sleaze like Lawrence Riley Coombs, on trial for a sadistic rape, will walk--especially after jumping bail and attacking her when she went to bring him in. But a jury sets him free, and before Dixie can even stifle her outrage, she learns that a vigilante group has abducted Coombs and given him a brutal taste of his own medicine. Dixie can't help wondering if the attack involved her friend Assistant DA Brenda Benson, threatened by Coombs as he strolled out of the courtroom. And when Dixie can't help wondering, Dixie can't help investigating. As the vigilantes strike again, she learns that these outlaw avengers risk spinning out of control--and at least one of them will go to any length to protect their mission. And worse--Dixie doesn't know there's someone else targeting someone who likes his revenge slow and painful.... Texas bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan captures a rapist, only to be stalked by him when a court finds him innocent. Fortunately, the rapist's plans for revenge against Flannigan are foiled by a group of vigilante women. By the author of Bitch Factor