Blood Work is the story of retired FBI agent Terry McCaleb, who suffered a heart attack at a young age as a result of having cardiomyopathy – a form of heart disease.
His heart weakened progressively until a matching donor was found and McCaleb received a successful heart transplant.
The book picks up the story about 8 weeks after the operation, where McCaleb is living on his boat ‘The Following Sea’ in Cabrillo Marina, Los Angeles.
At the start of the novel, a young woman called Graciela Rivers turns up at McCaleb’s boat with a photograph and informs him that her sister Gloria – the woman in the photograph – is the person whose heart is now beating in McCaleb’s chest.
McCaleb now needs to find the woman's killer.
I know I’ve ranted before about books that pull the carpet out from under you, but this book is on an altogether higher plane.
The identity of the killer(s) and the reason for their killing(s) was huge.
Personally, I was snookered and this has to be one of the cleverest books I have read.
I guess there was a reason why they made a movie starring Clint Eastwood about it.
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