The Bone Thief: A Body Farm Novel
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New York Times bestselling leader Jefferson Bass delivers an authentic and knuckle-biting thriller in which forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton must confront a crime of unimaginable proportions on his own doorstep. Find out why Booklist says, “Fans of forensic fiction will want to add this leader to their list of favorites.”
The Bone Thief
Dr. Bill Brockton has been called in on a seemingly routine case, to exhume a body and take a bone sample for a DNA parenthood test. But when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his colleagues, including his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady, are stunned to see that the corpse has been horribly violated.
Brockton’s initial shock gives way to astonishment as he uncovers a flourishing and lucrative black market in body parts. At the center of this ghoulish empire is a daring and prosperous grave robber. Soon Brockton finds himself drawn into the treacherous enterprise when the FBI recruits him to bring down the postmortem chop shop—using corpses from the Body Farm as bait in an undercover sting operation.
As Brockton struggles to play the unscrupulous role the FBI questions of him, his friend and colleague medical examiner Eddie Garcia faces a devastating injury that could end his career. Exposed to a near-lethal dose of radioactivity, Dr. Garcia has lost most of his right hand and his entire left hand. Out of options, he embarks on a desperate quest: both of his ravaged hands will be severed at the wrist and replaced with persons from a cadaver. But unless suitable ones are establish soon, the opportunity will be lost.
As Brockton delves deep into the clandestine trade, he is faced with an agonizing choice: Is he willing to risk an FBI investigation—and his own principles—to help his friend? Will he be able to live with himself if he crosses that line? Will he be able to live with himself if he doesn’t? And as the criminal case and the medical crisis converge, a pair of simpler questions arise: Will Dr. Garcia survive—and will Brockton?
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THE BONE THIEF is the fifth installment in the Body Farm series by Jefferson Bass. And let me tell you, this book will take your mind off of all your troubles. I know. I had a 3 day case of stomach flu will reading this book. I couldn’t eat, couldn’t get out of bed, couldn’t really do anything. All I could do was sleep…and read this novel. THE BONE THIEF helped me forget (at least temporarily) how really lousy I really felt. And that is a ringing endorsement!
Even though THE BONE THIEF is the 5th book in a series, it stands very well on its own. While there are vital references to previous tales, they are well clarified, and I never felt lost. With a multithreaded storyline based in the black marketeering of body parts, an FBI sting operation, the parenthood of an unborn child, and the agony of a dear friend, THE BONE THIEF is a clear winner.
I zipped right through THE BONE THIEF, even in my dilapidated condition. The plot and pacing both worked well, with the science, the action, and multiple threads all blending seamlessly. The characters were likeable and well developed, and I felt that I had a excellent rapport with them, even the ones from earlier books. The characters truly felt real and very human in both their professional and personal foibles and woes. All in all, THE BONE THIEF is an brilliant read, and I will certainly be reading more books in this series.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I have been a fan of these guys since the first body farm series but the last two books has been disappointing for me. I finished up tossing this book aside lacking finishing it. Usually I am immobile for a day after one of their books are unrestricted. This latest book is all over the place. Too much continuation from the bones of treachery.
I was drawn to this series for the forensic anthropology content but the last two books have fallen fleeting of this content. Frankly, I could care less about an aging forensic anthropologist’s like affair with a criminal residing within the bowels of the city sewer. This is a continuation of the previous book, where she alludes the police, and turns up pregnant in this latest book. At least the radioactive ME gets some closure in the latest book.
I can already see the next book, “grandfather Bill journey’s to Japan to seek long lost child. NO THANK YOU. This latest book deals with what should have seen closure in the previous book plus donor transplants, cadaver black market, and of course 2 chapters on missing limbs from a corpse, which does not get anymore attention until the last half of the book and then only a mention. Where is the forensic anthropology?
I can appreciate the leader’s appreciation of the donorship program but, the series of books did not start out with “live,” medical situations such as transplants and radioactive materials. Not much need for a forensic anthropologist in regards to a “nuked” cadaver.
On a positive note, I would highly recommend the first 3 books.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The top -notch team of Dr.Bill Bass, who founded the Body Farm, and Jon Jefferson, a crackerjack journalist, writing as Jefferson Bass does not let you down in this appealing, literate and informative Body Farm novel. In the event you are not familiar with the Body Farm, a tract of 2.5 acres funded by the University of Tennessee had been designated under Bass’s direction to document the progression of decay of human bodies. In forensic science investigators need to know when the person in question died, and as well as how he or she died. And they need to know the extent of activity of insects which will tell them how long that body has lain there. For instance, blow flies can immediately sense the presence of death and were already visiting the corpse we meet in the first paragraph of the novel even though she had just been added to the Body Farm dead personnel. By the next day the blow flies would have laid eggs in the ears, eyes and mouth and maggots would be swarming over the corpse. The presence of the maggots tells the investigators the body has been deceased for two days. The Body Farm is a research project, a research project of death.
In the novel,the fictional Dr.Bill Brockton, who heads the Body Farm, goes under take in with the FBI to capture and bring to justice men running chop shops- the illegal sale of bodies and body parts. Although one of the villains is a secret until the end of the book, “The Bone Thief’ is really not a mystery tale or a whodunit. It is more of a documentary, appealing because you will take a front seat at an autopsy, learn many of the intricacies of transplants, especially hands, which are the rarest and most hard surgeries performed. You’ll see that Dr. Brockton is comfortable with death in his Body Farm, crouching down beside one of his most recent Body Farm tenant, a once gorgeous TV attach woman, to see how she is doing. You’ll climb with him down the rickety, slimy ladder of a storm sewer and into the creepy bowels of the sewer where you find that a name has been living down there.You’ll be at Dr. Brockton’s side when he gets lost in the Tennessee hills at night, having to forge icy cold streams really naked, his clothes held up out of the water, his shoes dangling around his neck. You’ll accompany Brockton when he is obliged to meet a man in a grubby strip joint, part of an FBI sting. You’ll be a witness to just what strippers do.
“The Bone Thief” is a potpourri of many different characters and scenes, but the characters are less appealing than the scenarios in which they run. Some of the predicaments do stretch the credulity, but this is a very excellent read indeed, one that will keep you turning the pages.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
University of Tennessee’s anthropology department chairman and the head of the school’s human decomposition research facility the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton and his grad assistant Miranda Lovelady open a coffin to take a sample for a DNA parenthood test. But, the remains inside have been desecrated.
The FBI questions Brockton to help them on ending a lucrative body parts black market operation. He agrees to play the role of a supplier though he remains distant by his last case Bones of Treachery. At the same time he struggles with an undercover role to end a chop shop, his medical examiner friend Eddie Garcia has been exposed to a dose of radioactivity that has cost him both hands amputated and likely his job unless he takes an illegal scheming spin with his hope being Brockton.
This is an entertaining Body Farm mystery as the hero is caught in a personal morals dilemma between helping his friend and ending the black market sales of body parts. This issue comes on top of his inability to go past the treachery that “murdered” his heart. Although two late shaky spins detract from an otherwise levelheaded undercover tale, forensic fans will delight in Dr. Brockton’s moral crisis.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
To date the topnotch team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson writing as Jefferson Bass has brought us a number of forensic thrillers, Bones Of Treachery (2009), The Devil’s Bones (2008), Flesh and Bone (2007). Each is solidly based on accurate forensic science, well plotted, and chillingly rendered. Precisely what readers would come to expect from Bass who is known throughout the world for his expertise as a forensic anthropologist and founder of the University of Tennessee’s Body Farm. When teamed with journalist, science writer, and documentary film-maker Jon Jefferson, the results are outstanding.
With THE BONE THIEF Dr. Bill Brockton the fictional head of the Body Farm faces his greatest challenge. Initially, what Brockton is questioned to do is a bit odd, but certainly not frightening. An exhumation order has been signed. Once at the cemetery Brockton clarifies to his assistant, Miranda, “We’re here to help figure out if Trey Willoughby fathered a child by Sherry Burchfield.” The question is a bit juicy as Sherry, some 20 years prior, had been Knoxville’s most legendary madam.” Brockton is hoping to do a small “postmortem dentistry” – extract several te4eth from the corpse and secure DNA evidence. The shocker is that Willoughby is missing his arms and legs. While his silk suit is in a state of partial decay, the sleeves of the jacket and the legs of the trousers “were filled with white PVC pipe; plastiC in place of human flesh and bone.”
Before long after it is learned that the amputations occurred after death, Brockton is astounded to learn that there is a black market in body parts. Further, he is questioned by the FBI to participate in a sting operation to help learn the ghoulish thieves. Of course, if things go awry it’s doomsday for Brockton.
For persons who delight in forensic thrillers this one is filled with scientific detail and rife with suspense.
- Gail Cooke
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5