In Paul Wollf, Earl Emerson has created a hero on the brink. And when a crucial piece of evidence turns up, Wollf suspects the unthinkable: this pyro has turned him into a fiery target. The fires being set are coming closer and closer to Station Six. With fires springing up across the city, Wollf begins to see a pattern. But soon he and Cindy Rideout find themselves in a fierce political battle inside the department, just as a pyro starts to turn Seattle into his private little hell. Despite the stationhouse leers and jokes, Wollf is only doing what comes naturally, helping out an underdog and bucking the system. Two decades before, an arsonist’s fire killed Wolff’s firefighter father, sending his mother into a spiral of depression and triggering a chain of events that left his brother in jail for murder and Wollf alone, seething in anger and isolation.Īlready disciplined for punching out a superior officer, Wollf is now taking a young female firefighter under his wing. Paul Wollf of the Station Six’s ladder truck hates a pyro more than most. His multiple fires keep a station up at night, running in circles, and more vulnerable at the next “real” call.

To a firefighter, there’s nothing worse than a nuisance arsonist. Based on stunning, actual events in the author’s life, this electrifying new novel is a frightening duel between a Seattle firefighter and a man who wants to burn him down. In his pulse-pounding thrillers, Earl Emerson takes readers into the heart of the world’s most dangerous profession, where the next alarm might bring sudden death.

Help Wanted by Earl Emerson