Elevator pitch : a novel
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When an elevator in a Manhattan office tower plummets 40 floors, killing the four occupants, it?s just the beginning of a horrible week in New York City. Over the next two days, elevator malfunctions cause more fatalities, and a taxi bombing kills three. Beleaguered Mayor Richard Headley, when asked by thorn-in-his-side columnist Barbara Matheson if it?s safe to ride an elevator in the city, can only reply that he doesn?t know, a response that causes chaos. Meanwhile, NYPD detectives Lisa Delgado and Jerry Bourque are working on the homicide of a man mutilated to hide his identity, who turns out to have been an expert elevator technician.