Deadly Perfection: The Icove Agenda – Nadine Furst's bestselling book, based on the events of the Icove case in Origin in Death and adapted into a vid, The Icove Agenda, filmed during Celebrity in Death. It was first mentioned in Memory in Death, when Nadine told Eve and Peabody over lunch at Scentsational that since she had the front line on the Icove story, she had been raking in offers - book deals, vid deals, and her own show (Now). She was anxious that it be completely accurate, and asked for Eve’s input on details in Salvation in Death.[1] In Promises in Death, Eve told Nadine she got it right: “I already knew the ending, but you pulled it off, so I wanted to see how you played it out.”[2]
Before the book launch party in Fantasy in Death, Eve told Nadine, “You did a solid job. More than, if it matters what I think. You made it human and important, and you didn’t sentimentalize it. You got it accurate, and that matters, but you made it real, and that’s probably just as important.”[3]
The cover was revealed during the launch party - on a background of icy blue, interlocking faces stared out. The same face over and over - female and striking, with a small, secret smile. They shimmered against the ice, while those eyes seemed to glow with some inner life.[4]
Nadine gave Eve a copy of the book, with the dedication: “For Lieutenant Eve Dallas, courageous, relentless, insightful, who honors her badge every day as she stands for the living and the dead.” She told Eve “We’re damn good at what we do... not just because we have the chops, but because it matters. It matters to us, every day.”[4]
The book became a bestseller.
People who have said they read it included:
- Peach Lapkoff was looking forward to reading it in Kindred in Death[5]
- Winston Dudley IV in Indulgence in Death[6]
- Macy, who was filling in for Mira’s admin in Indulgence in Death[7]
- Anna Munson, who then passed it to her boss, Felicity VanWitt, in Indulgence in Death[8]
- Violet Holmes in Celebrity in Death[9]
- Robinson Newton in Calculated in Death[10]
- Alva Moonie in Calculated in Death[11]
- Cicily Morgan in Calculated in Death[11]
- Philadelphia Jones in Concealed in Death[12]
- Tiffany Brigham Bittmore in Concealed in Death[13]
- Lemont Frester in Concealed in Death, who enjoyed it[14]
- Nick Bocco, as he had time, in Obsession in Death[15]
- Ellysa Tesh in Devoted in Death, who asked Eve if she was as good as they made her out to be in the book and vid (she replied “He’ll get my best,” referring to Dorian Kuper)[16]
- Madam Dupres told Eve and Roarke she very much enjoyed Nadine Frust’s book on their investigation of the Icoves in Wonderment in Death[17]
- Sila Robarts (listening to it), in Brotherhood in Death[18]
- Liam O’Dell in Apprentice in Death[19]
- Henry Whipple in Apprentice in Death[20]
- Missy Lee Durante in Secrets in Death told Eve and Peabody she knew who they were and if the book and vid weren’t bullshit she could trust them[21]; her beau, Marshall Cosner, said, “loved the vid, gotta read the book"[22]
- Audrey DeLano, who had followed Eve and Peabody’s work closely since Nadine’s book, according to her daughter, Blaine DeLano, in Dark in Death[23]
- Natalia Durban Berkle and her daughter, Dru, in Dark in Death[24]
- Loren Able in Leverage in Death[25]
- Jordan Banks referred to the book and vid in Leverage in Death, but it was hard to imagine him reading a book, especially a non-fiction one[26]
- Rochelle Pickering in Connections in Death[27]
- Walter Pickering in Connections in Death[28]
- Frances Early in Vendetta in Death, who also saw the vid[29]
- Lance Po and his husband, Westley Schupp, in Vendetta in Death, who were also fans of the vid and Eve and Roarke in general[29]
- Catherine Fitzwalter, owner of First Page Books, in Golden in Death, who had recommended it more times than she could say[30]
- Jay Duran in Golden in Death, who said it was marvelous and he saw the vid with his family[30]
- Marshall Cosner claimed to have read the book and seen the vid in Golden in Death, that his family knew the Drs. Icove, or thought they did[31]
- Trent Bilbo in Shadows in Death, who pressed both hands to his mouth as if holding back squeals, when he met Eve and Peabody[32]
- Chadwick Billingsby, who also saw the vid and thought when Eve asked him about Gwen Huffman in Faithless in Death she must have killed somebody since he recognized her name[33]
- Bolton Kincade Singer, who had already started reading her second book in Forgotten in Death[34]
- Harmony Singer who loved it and the vid, and was halfway through The Red Horse Legacy in Forgotten in Death and thought it may top it[35]
- Allysa Gray in Forgotten in Death, who had read about Eve’s work as well as liking the book and vid.[36]
- Miranda, Garnet DeWinter’s daughter, in Forgotten in Death, who summed it up as “misguided men who twisted science for their own ends.” She had questions for Eve and was currently reading Nadine’s second book. One question was, “On the Icove investigation, do you think the clones who got out of the school, most were just kids, do you think they found a way to regroup, that they found a haven?” Eve replied, “They’ve got no reason to cause any trouble or be any threat.” Miranda clarified that she wouldn’t be afraid of the clones, but wondered if they had any support, anybody to take care of them, feed them, educate them, socialize them. “I feel the Avrils - and it’s wrong to take a life, but in a way, a very real way, they were defending their own and others - had a place, a safe place. And a way to help the others.”[37]
- Marta Bardova in Forgotten in Death, who asked Peabody if McNab was her love because he was “in the book and now in the new book”; she wished them many happy years together, saying he was adorable in the books[38]
- Mike Schotski in Abandoned in Death, who also saw the vid[39]
- Jim Mosebly hadn’t read it because “so distressing,” but after meeting Eve in Abandoned in Death, he downloaded and started it.[40]
- When Jamie Lingstrom met Nadine in Abandoned in Death, he gushed, “Really like your books. The vid topped it out.”[41]
- Carlie Greenleaf in Payback in Death read both books and saw “the first vid” (there was only one)[42]
- Darlie Tanaka had enjoyed both of Nadine’s books, and was glad Eve and Peabody were the ones who were looking for Martin Greenleaf’s murderer in Payback in Death[43]
- Lynn, Cela Spaceck’s receptionist in Payback in Death, had read both books and was a huge fan of Peabody’s smart mouth; she saw the vid and was excited that Nadine was writing a third book[44]
- Professor Elaine Gleason in Payback in Death, who followed Eve’s cases closely, since she taught a criminal justice class at NYU, and covered the book in the student book club she ran - Crime and Punishment, and planned to cover the next book as the first read in the fall semester[45]
- Moses Rowe in Random in Death saw the vid and read both books[46]
- Donna Fleschner in Passions in Death, who told Eve and Peabody “After I saw the vid, I downloaded the first book -- already read the second -- can’t wait for the vid.”[47]
References:
- ↑ Salvation in Death, Chapter 5
- ↑ Promises in Death, Chapter 17
- ↑ Fantasy in Death, Chapter 10
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fantasy in Death, Chapter 17
- ↑ Kindred in Death, Chapter 9
- ↑ Indulgence in Death, Chapter 10
- ↑ Indulgence in Death, Chapter 11
- ↑ Indulgence in Death, Chapter 13
- ↑ Celebrity in Death, Chapter 19
- ↑ Calculated in Death, Chapter 5
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Calculated in Death, Chapter 6
- ↑ Concealed in Death, Chapter 3
- ↑ Concealed in Death, Chapter 6
- ↑ Concealed in Death, Chapter 10
- ↑ Obsession in Death, Chapter 20
- ↑ Devoted in Death, Chapter 4
- ↑ Wonderment in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ Brotherhood in Death, Chapter 2
- ↑ Apprentice in Death, Chapter 1
- ↑ Apprentice in Death, Chapter 5
- ↑ Secrets in Death, Chapter 13
- ↑ Secrets in Death, Chapter 15
- ↑ Dark in Death, Chapter 7
- ↑ Dark in Death, Chapter 22
- ↑ Leverage in Death, Chapter 3
- ↑ Leverage in Death, Chapter 7
- ↑ Connections in Death, Chapter 2
- ↑ Connections in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Vendetta in Death, Chapter 2
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Golden in Death, Chapter 9
- ↑ Golden in Death, Chapter 16
- ↑ Shadows in Death, Chapter 16
- ↑ Faithless in Death, Chapter 11
- ↑ Forgotten in Death, Chapter 3
- ↑ Forgotten in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ Forgotten in Death, Chapter 10
- ↑ Forgotten in Death, Chapter 12
- ↑ Forgotten in Death, Chapter 19
- ↑ Abandoned in Death, Chapter 5
- ↑ Abandoned in Death, Chapter 12
- ↑ Abandoned in Death, Chapter 16
- ↑ Payback in Death, Chapter 7
- ↑ Payback in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ Payback in Death, Chapter 16
- ↑ Payback in Death, Chapter 21
- ↑ Random in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ Passions in Death, Chapter 4