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Under Pressure Paperback – 11 August 2020

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A series of deadly explosions rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the F.B.I. turns once again to Dr. Lucas Page.

On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the night, instantly killing 702 people, including every single attendee, yet the damage to the building itself was minimal.

An explosion of that precision was no accident and, in response, the FBI mobilizes its entire team -- but the sheer number of victims strains their resources. Were all 702 victims in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was there only one target and 701 unlucky bystanders? That many victim files is a staggering amount of data to sort through and Brett Kehoe, Special Agent in Charge of Manhattan, decides that he can't do this without more computational power.

Dr. Lucas Page, astrophysicist, university professor, and former FBI agent, is uniquely gifted for the task at hand. He can visualize a crime scene as if he was a bystander and can break down any set of data at a glance. Even though Page wants nothing to do with the FBI, with his city under attack and his family at risk, he steps in to find a killer in a haystack before they strike again.

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Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton; 1st edition (11 August 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 1529353203
ISBN-13 : 978-1529353204
Dimensions : 15.2 x 3.6 x 23.4 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 362,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 19,397 in Murder Thrillers

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Pulse-racing brilliance, Peterborough Telegraph

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CITY OF WINDOWS is that rarest of gems - a page-turner painted with soaring prose that makes you want to read every sentence twice. In Dr Lucas Page, Robert Pobi has created a unique and modern protagonist...He'll be back and so will I., Gregg Hurwitz, Sunday Times bestselling author of Orphan X

· A tough, wise, knowing narrative voice, a great plot, a great setting, and even better characters - I loved this., Lee Child, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

Relevant, smart and action-packed, CITY OF WINDOWS is The Day of the Jackal for Trump's America., Chris Brookmyre

CITY OF WINDOWS is a white knuckle ride hurtling along at breakneck speed. A beautifully plotted thriller, but the best thing of all is its lead character. With Dr Lucas Page Robert Pobi has created one of the most fascinating and unique protagonists since Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme., Martin Waites

A stunner. One of the most impressive, compelling thrillers I've read in a long while. The plot moves at bullet velocity. The writing has an electric surge. Robert Pobi delivers a fresh, exciting new voice to thriller fiction., David Morrell, author of Murder As a Fine Art

A thrilling page turner with a unique and fascinating hero in Lucas Page. The narrative whips by at breakneck page and the plotting is smart and tense., Rob Reynolds

Author Pobi and Character Page are even on the strength of this first outing shaping up to be the new dream team for fans of high concept thrillers. It can only be a matter of time too before Netflix make Mr Pobi an offer he can't refuse, this is a series that has all the ingredients to run and run., Shots Magazine

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Reviews for City of Windows - -

CITY OF WINDOWS is that rarest of gems - a page-turner painted with soaring prose that makes you want to read every sentence twice. In Dr Lucas Page, Robert Pobi has created a unique and modern protagonist...He'll be back and so will I. - Gregg Hurwitz, Sunday Times bestselling author of Orphan X

A tough, wise, knowing narrative voice, a great plot, a great setting, and even better characters - I loved this. - Lee Child, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

Relevant, smart and action-packed, CITY OF WINDOWS is The Day of the Jackal for Trump's America. - Chris Brookmyre

CITY OF WINDOWS is a white knuckle ride hurtling along at breakneck speed. A beautifully plotted thriller, but the best thing of all is its lead character. With Dr Lucas Page Robert Pobi has created one of the most fascinating and unique protagonists since Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme. - Martin Waites

A stunner. One of the most impressive, compelling thrillers I've read in a long while. The plot moves at bullet velocity. The writing has an electric surge. Robert Pobi delivers a fresh, exciting new voice to thriller fiction. - David Morrell, author of Murder As a Fine Art

A thrilling page turner with a unique and fascinating hero in Lucas Page. The narrative whips by at breakneck page and the plotting is smart and tense. - Rob Reynolds

Pobi's punchy prose bowls along breaking all the speed limits. - Sunday Times Crime Club

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Wow!!!! My new favourite author :)

Reviewed in Australia on 13 August 2020

Holy cow!! This was a rollercoaster of a story, and I wasn't sure I took a full breath, the entire time I was reading it. A beautifully crafted, thrilling, shocking novel.

Lucas Page is a brilliant astrophysicist who sees patterns in the world around him in a way that is almost supernatural. He has been through trauma in his past though and has some artificial limbs to prove it. All of this makes his wife less than thrilled when he takes up with the FBI to figure out why on earth people are being blown up in New York.

The book flows beautifully, the main character is clever but lacking in social skills and the secondary characters build on the story in just the way you would want them to. I did not see the mastermind behind the killings until the author revealed him. Perfect.

I wish I had read the first book in the series and I can't wait to read the next one!!

5 stars from me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Minotaur books.

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Lorraine lampon

Under Pressure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2020

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I really like this author. I enjoy the way he writes. His characters are different and compelling, I don't necessarily understand them but I do care about them. To read to the end of a book, I have to like the characters. Lucas is a great character and so is Kehoe. Very violent though, good thing I'm good at scanning.

McT

Another Winner

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2020

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This is an excellent book. The first in the series featuring Dr Lucas Page City of Windows was brilliant but this one might be even better.
Loads of action, twists, turns and a really interesting hero. I could not put this down. Highly recommend.

Dee

disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2021

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This book was far too technical to the point of boring.

Chloe Mahon

Good read!

Reviewed in Canada on 29 November 2020

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Overall a good read. Enjoyed all of the action in this book.... kept me guessing until the end who done it!

Bonnie Brody

Interesting, But Not as Good as the First in the Series

Reviewed in the United States on 5 August 2020

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In Under Pressure, Lucas Page, the brilliant astrophysicist and pattern detector, is called in by the FBI after an explosion at the Guggenheim Museum that left 702 people dead. Other explosions follow, leaving death and mayhem in their wake. A manifesto is sent to CNN taking credit for the explosions and stating that they stem from an anti-technology revolution. Lucas doesn't buy the veracity of the letter and believes that it was written by a computer program, not a real person.

The Guggenheim explosion occurred towards the end of a gala for high rollers on Wall Street who were welcoming an IPO that was coming out shortly. The IPO was for an eco-friendly company that planned to clean up messes from fracking and mining debris. At the height of the celebration, confetti was strewn everywhere and the bomb was disguised in the confetti. The damage was awful as people melted and exploded from the inside out.

Lucas is still married to Erin and has several adopted children, each unique in their own special way. Lucas remains challenged from the 'event' that left him with only one arm, one leg, and one eye. As he tries to balance his family life with his FBI work, he finds it very difficult.

Lucas is triggered emotionally by the bombings. They bring up past trauma that he seeks to avoid. As he gets deeper into the case, he finds that all the bombings appear to be linked to one company, owned by two brothers. Lucas is sure that the motive is money, but who stands to gain?

I really liked the first book in the series but this second installment wasn't as satisfying. There was a lot of repetition, reminding the reader of what had happened previously, which I thought was filler.
I liked the pairing of Lucas with Whitaker as in the first novel. I highly recommend reading Pobi's first Lucas Page novel before jumping in to this one.

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