Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Rage Factor
Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Chris Rogers
Class/Genre: Mystery Woman Main Character
Series: Dixie Flanagan # 2
Bantam, Feb 1999, $22.95, 320 pp.
Professional bounty hunter Dixie Flanagan usually does not care whether her "skip" did the crime or not, but her latest returnee, Lawrence Coombs is so creepily evil she wants him executed. To her dismay and that of several of Coombs' victims, Lawrence's trial ends with a not guilty verdict.
While Dixie works as a bodyguard for a teenager, an assailant abducts Coombs, giving the sadist as brutal of a beating as he gave to his victims. Though Dixie firmly feels that Coombs got what he deserved, she condemns the action. Soon other individuals accused of abuse but freed begin to vanish. Dixie believes that no one, regardless of their motives, is above the law. She thinks she knows who is behind the attacks and places herself in danger to put a halt to them.
Chris Rogers avoids the sophomore slump as RAGE FACTOR, her second Flanagan novel (see BITCH FACTOR), is a brilliant, complex who-done-it. The masterful story line includes several sub-plots that cleverly blend into one fabulous tale. The witty Dixie remains an interesting character, who will garner much reader attention as they will desire the Rogers Factor in more novels soon.
Harriet Klausner
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