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The man burns tonight / Donn Cortez.
- Baker & Taylor
Coming to the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada, at the behest of his boss, computer programmer Dex Redden becomes an eyewitness to the murder of his boss by an unknown, masked assailant and finds himself on the run, with both the police and the real killer in hot pursuit. By the author ofThe Closer . Original. - Simon and Schuster
JACK RABBIT SPEAKS A tall figure stands alone, waiting to be engulfed in flames. It is the Burning Man, the giant wooden centerpiece of Nevada's famous weeklong arts festival. Every year, thousands flock to the middle of the desert to push the limits of creativity and outrageousness. Dex Edden is not one of them. A computer programmer, Dex has come to the wild and wooly festival only to please his boss. Out of the blue, he will be a witness to murder.When a masked visitor enters the RV where Dex and his boss are camped out, Dex's tiny oasis in the middle of the weird and unnerving festival scene is shattered in a moment of blinding violence. Now Dex is wanted by the killer, who fled into the desert -- and by the police. For Dex, survival depends on blending in with the oddballs and eccentrics in an alien landscape. For on the final, fateful night of Burning Man, the flames will rise -- and the masks will come off....
