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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a brand new Virgil Flowers thriller that will keep you gripped until the very last page. "Barns, the chairman, looked around the room and said, 'Okay. We can do this. Let's see a show of hands. It's unanimous, or it's prison. Do we kill Clancy Conley?' "They all looked around at each other, each of them reluctant to go first. Then the fat man raised his hand, and then Kerns, and then the rest of them. "'It's unanimous,' Barns said." In southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. There are no votes against. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier -- a team of dognappers supplying medical labs -- when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been found -- and the victim is a local reporter...
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Praise for John Sandford:
'Wry humour, a fully realized lead, and tense atmospherics . . . Sandford effortlessly conjures up the rhythms and personalities of a small town in one of his best outings to date' Publishers Weekly
'Crime writer John Sandford is one of the best around' Sun
'Delivers twists to the very last sentence' Daily Mail
'That rare beast - a series writer who reads like a breath of fresh air' Daily Mirror
'Few do it better than Sandford' Daily Telegraph
'An exciting and superbly elegant demonstration of the intelligent crime writing that has helped John Sandford sell an estimated 33 million books' Guardian
L'autore:
'Wry humour, a fully realized lead, and tense atmospherics . . . Sandford effortlessly conjures up the rhythms and personalities of a small town in one of his best outings to date' Publishers Weekly
'Crime writer John Sandford is one of the best around' Sun
'Delivers twists to the very last sentence' Daily Mail
'That rare beast - a series writer who reads like a breath of fresh air' Daily Mirror
'Few do it better than Sandford' Daily Telegraph
'An exciting and superbly elegant demonstration of the intelligent crime writing that has helped John Sandford sell an estimated 33 million books' Guardian
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John Sandford is the author of the Prey series, four Kidd novels and the Virgil Flowers series. He lives in Minnesota. Visit www.johnsandford.org for more information.
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- EditoreSimon&Schuster UK
- Data di pubblicazione2015
- ISBN 10 1471134954
- ISBN 13 9781471134951
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine400
- Valutazione libreria
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