Hell's Kitchen (John Pellam #3) by Jeffery Deaver (Also Published under William Jefferies)

DISCOVER DEAVER's LOCATION SCOUT SERIES: DEADLY THRILLS IN A DIFFERENT SETTING.

Every New York City neighbourhood has a story, but what John Pellam uncovers in Hell's Kitchen has a darkness all its own.

The Hollywood location scout was hoping to capture the unvarnished memories of longtime residents in a no-budget documentary film. But when a suspicious fire ravages an elderly woman's crumbling tenement, Pellam realises that someone might want the past to stay buried. As more buildings and lives go up in flames, he takes to the streets, seeking the twisted pyromaniac who sells his services to the highest bidder.

But Pellam is unaware that the first are merely preludes to the arsonist's ultimate masterpiece - a conflagration of nearly unimaginable proportions. With pellan at its blackened and searing centre...