“Isn’t that always the way?” Eve noted. “Every time you’ve got some guy going on a spree that ends in blood, people say he was quiet and kept to himself. Just once, I’d like to hear how he was a maniac who ate live snakes.”
    “There was that guy last year who bit off the heads of pigeons before he jumped off the roof of his apartment building.”
    “Yeah, but he only splattered himself, and we didn’t catch that one. No point in trying to cheer me up with pigeon eaters.”

“What? Do I look like I stomp on old ladies for recreation?”
    Roarke angled his head. “Actually—”
    “Just keep that silk tongue of yours still.”
    “That’s not what you said last night.”

“Peabody said and burst into tears.
    “Man. God. Roarke.”
    “An interesting and flattering lineup,” Roarke said to his wife’s strangled call for help.”

“I don’t know how to deal with a teenaged type person.”
    “Ah, well, I’d say you’d deal with him as you deal with everyone else. You order him around, and if he argues or doesn’t jump quickly enough you freeze his blood with one of those vicious looks you’re so good at and verbally abuse him. It always works so well for you.”

“Eve walked over to join him, laid down her palm. “Dallas.”
    Identification verified, Darling Eve.
    She hissed. “Why do you do that? It’s embarrassing.”

“You get me that today, I might just dig up a pair of garters.”
    “I want the corset, too. And the shoes.”
    “You get me a source location, you get the shoes.”
    “I’m really starting to like this job. You have to wear the shoes the whole time we—”

“Lieutenant?” Trueheart whispered, as if already in church. “I want to thank you for allowing me to be a part of this op.”
    “You’re going to suck up,” Baxter told him. “You suck up to me now. I suck up to Dallas. That’s the food chain.”

“I could come into midtown sometime, and . . . consult.”
    “I’d like to know what I’ve done to deserve a threat like that.”
    It helped to smile. “Or, you know, go shopping with you. Help you pick out a suit or something.”
    “I felt that chill right down to the bone. Go away, Lieutenant.”

This was a fun episode of this series. Interesting characters and engaging story....love the recurring characters here.

It's not my favorite in the series, but still worth a read

4.5 stars

Seri in Death kali ini kembali lagi dengan cerita pembunuhan yang agak berbeda dari biasanya. Korban-korban di buku ini meninggal karena virus. Bukan virus penyakit dalam tubuh, tapi virus komputer. Ya dibalik virus itu pasti ada dalangnya, si pencipta virus. Tapi mau sejenius apa pun si pencipta virus ini, dia tetap gak berkutik kalo sudah berhadapan dengan Roarke, James, dan para anggota team EDD. Teamwork mereka keren banget!

Eve harus agak 'redup' di awal cerita karena pembunuhan di buku ini berhubungan dengan elektronik. Elektronik dan Eve itu ibarat nemesis, seperti minyak dan air, gak nyambung. Makanya Roarke and team lebih tersorot di buku kali ini.

Plot buku ini juga seru, endingnya ngga terduga. Padahal udah di arahin nih kira-kira dalang di balik semua ini siapa, tapi ternyata masuk ke chapter akhir baru kebongkar semuanya dan hasilnya bener-bener di luar dugaan. Truly another good read. :)

Another great entry in the series. Purity in Death deals with a computer virus that infects people causing them to become angry and violent. What we learn along the way is a terrorist group named Purity is targeting people who the law has let slip by (drug dealers, child molesters, etc.). But really who decides who lives and who dies? How can this group be allowed to mete out punishments? Doesn't it make them as bad as the people they are killing, especially considering innocent people get caught in the cross fire?

These are all things that Eve has to face in this book. It's a very technology / media driven book. The slipperly slope of using the media to your advantage and how it can also work against you. This is an organized cell similar to the Cassandra group in [b:Loyalty in Death|268598|Loyalty in Death (In Death, #9)|J.D. Robb|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1305098754s/268598.jpg|260380] a few books back, but like I said before they attack from the computer, which I thought was very clever. Considering all the technology used today, this book was written 10 years ago and Robb manages to still keep it relevent and the threat is still something that can cause uneasiness even with the changes made in those 10 years.

I really like this series. I'm slowly making my way through, but I think if I ever did get to the end I would be sad that I didn't have the characters to come back to. Until Then!