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Black Friday (Maggie O'Dell) |  | Author: Alex Kava
Publisher: Mira
Category: Book
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 177374
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.4 x 1
ISBN: 0778326519
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780778326519
ASIN: 0778326519
Publication Date: October 1, 2009
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Product Description
On the busiest shopping day of the year, some idealistic college students believe they're about to carry out an elaborate media stunt at the largest mall in America. They think the jamming devices in their backpacks will disrupt stores' computer systems, causing delays and chaos. What they don't realize is that instead of jamming devices, their backpacks are stuffed with explosives, ready to be detonated by remote control and turning them into suicide bombers.Caught up in a political nightmare, battling a new interim director and still mourning the death of her boss A. D. Cunningham, FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell must put her own troubles aside and fly to Minnesota to help figure out what's behind this terrorist attack—a massacre that is all the more frightening because no group has claimed responsibility. The search becomes personal when a tip reveals that one of the college students involved is Patrick, Maggie's brother. Afraid and on the run, Patrick must decide if he can finally trust Maggie enough to help her unravel this horrifying nightmare. Sifting through the debris for answers, Maggie is joined by Nick Morrelli, who has recently taken a job with a national security company that oversees security for the mall. Although Maggie and Nick have investigated several cases together in the past, they've never investigated a relationship with each other. Nick would like to change that. When an informant confides in Maggie that there are other attacks on the secret agenda, she knows that she's running out of time. In less than twenty-four hours she'll need to figure out exactly when and where the second attack will take place, who to look for and how to keep her brother from becoming one of the casualties.
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Terrific! July 21, 2010
C. Hilzendeger (Montana)
Was a good read. It was one of those you started and couldn't put down. There has to be more coming because it just didn't end for me.
 Fact checker, please! June 3, 2010
Don M Howard (Rimrock, AZ)
I've been a fan of Alex Kava for several years and have enjoyed all her novels. I enjoyed "Black Friday", up to a point.
My beef with this novel is that she errs on certain facts: the villain of the piece, the Project Manager, is supposed to be the third man of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and he was seen wearing a Carolina Panthers baseball cap. Problem is, according to Wikipedia, the Carolina Panters joined the league in 1995 but played their first season in 1996, which makes the OK City bomber wearing a Panthers baseball cap kind of problematic. I'll concede that MAYBE I'm wrong on this point because Wikipedia is not infallible, but there are other problems with the novel, too.
The ending bothers me. It just sort of trails limply off, with no resolution. The big blast, the real objective of the Project Manager, that is supposed to follow up the bombings at the Mall of America (which shut down the mall and killed over 40 people) turns out to be a fizzle in the parking garage at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix. Big whoop.
The characters don't seem to fully develop, either. Maggie O'Dell just can't decide between the various men who are attracted to her and this is off-putting, at least to me, as a man.
 Maggie O'Dell May 21, 2010
S. Bashor (California)
I love the Maggie O'Dell novels by Alex Kava. She tells a great serial killer story without a lot of the gore. I love Maggie, but I'm hoping she will get a love interest that works for her.
Take the Escalator to Terror April 22, 2010
Patricia Cooper-koerner
Black Friday by Alex Kava is the first book by her that I have read. I thought it was great! In our new world that includes terrorism, it is a scary thought that this could really happen!!!
It is a Maggie O'Dell novel. The story is about five college students that go to the Mall of America the day after Thanksgiving. The day the retail world calls Black Friday. Sounds normal right? Wrong! These students are called castaways by someone known as the Project Manager. This man talked three students into carrying a red backpack into the mall with "jamming devices" inside. They were told that these devices would screw up the store and mall computers. Being the busiest shopping day of the year, it would cause mass confusion. Little did the students know but they were being turned into suicide bombers.
One student named Dixon brought two friends along.He wound up being called from the mall by his Grandfather because his Grandmother had to have heart surgery. Thinking nothing of it he handed his backpack over to his friend Rebecca.
After Dixon left, Rebecca had to go to the bathroom. Their other friend Patrick waited for her in the food court. The other two students with the backpacks were walking seperately through the mall as instructed. Rebecca went to the bathroom but forget to get the backpack off the hook on the stall door when she left.
When she got back to the food court, she told Patrick she would be right back and left to retrieve it. As she approached the bathroom it happened. A huge explosion! The Project Manager had used his remote and detonated two of the bombs. The third would not go off for some reason.
Chaos...confusion...death...body parts was everywhere.
I have to stop so I do not give away who is involved and what happens next. Read the book! It was a fast reading page turner. It will make you really think about how vulnerable we really are.
 Black Friday was a sad day..... April 18, 2010
I love Alex Kava books. I eagerly await the next novel however, this one was a disappointment for me. The story started off with a bang (literally) and I was hooked but as the story went along it lost my attention. Details seemed to be unresolved or very weak and took the story somewhere I was bored with. One thing I enjoy about Alex Kava is that the novels tell stories that are fictional yet have underlying truth which as a reader makes me feel there is a "chance" that these terrible things could happen and these characters could be real. But this story went from scary reality to a government conspiracy which I didn't find enough detail in to believe or even find enjoyable. It was sad not to have Cunningham but new characters were introduced andi look forward to see how they develop in future novels.I enjoy these novels for the crime-fighting and not the romance. I hope this is the final novel that develops the "possible" romance with Morelli. This novel it seemed like an after thougt just thrown in. All in all I still look forward to the next Maggie story but on the list of favorties Black Friday is at the bottom
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