Rebel Island

Zusatztext “A potent concoction of humor and suspense in a novel that is as refreshing as a Sunday-afternoon Bloody Mary.” — San Antonio Express-News In Rick Riordan’s case! believe the hype. He really is that good.” —Dennis Lehane Informationen zum Autor Rick Riordan is the author of six previous Tres Navarre novels— Big Red Tequila , winner of the Shamus and Anthony Awards; The Widower’s Two-Step , winner of the Edgar Award; The Last King of Texas ; The Devil Went Down to Austin; Southtown; and Mission Road . He is also the author of the acclaimed thriller Cold Springs and the young adult novel The Lightning Thief . Rick Riordan lives with his family in San Antonio, Texas. Klappentext From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series A triple-crown winner of mystery's most coveted awards, Rick Riordan brings his Texas-style take on the crime thriller to an island paradise where ex-P.I. Tres Navarre finds himself stranded with a killer as unstoppable as a force of nature. Tres Navarre and his new wife Maia came to celebrate their honeymoon. But no sooner had they arrived on Rebel Island than a reminder of Navarre's past showed up dead in room 12. Suddenly Tres finds himself flashing back to the grim childhood summer that changed his life. When a second corpse turns up, it's clear that the past isn't dead and buried-yet. What dark secrets were kept that long-ago summer and who is back to avenge them? These are questions Tres must answer as a monster hurricane hits, trapping them on a flooding island, and as the hotel's remaining guests are being brutally murdered. Tres knows better than anyone the dangerous line between vengeance and justice-and this time he may have to cross it. Don't miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels: BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER'S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION?ROAD • REBEL?ISLAND Chapter One We got married in a thunderstorm. That should’ve been my first warning. The Southwest Craft Center courtyard was festooned with white crepe paper. The tables were laden with fresh tamales, chips and salsa. Cases of Shiner Bock sweated on ice in tin buckets. The margarita machine was humming. The San Antonio River flowed past the old limestone walls. Maia looked beautiful in her cream bridal dress. Her black hair was curled in ringlets and her coppery skin glowed with health. The guests had arrived: my mother, fresh from a tour of Guatemala; my brother, Garrett, not-so-fresh from our long bachelor party in Austin; and a hundred other relatives, cops, thugs, ex-cons, lawyers—all the people who had made my life so interesting the past few decades. Then the clouds came. Lightning sparked off a mesquite tree. The sky opened up, and our outdoor wedding became a footrace to the chapel with the retired Baptist minister and the Buddhist monk leading the pack. Larry Cho, the monk, had a commanding early lead, but Reverend Buckner Fanning held steady around the tamale table while Larry the Buddhist had to swerve to avoid a beer keg and got blocked out by a couple of bail bondsmen. Buckner was long retired, but he sure stayed fit. He won the race to the chapel and held the door for the others as we came pouring in. I was last, helping Maia, since she couldn’t move very quickly. Partly that was because of the wedding dress. Mostly it was because she was eight and a half months pregnant. I held a plastic bag over our heads as we plodded through the rain. “This was not in the forecast,” she protested. “No,” I agreed. “I’m thinking God owes us a refund.” Inside, the chapel was dark and smelled of musty limestone. The cedar floorboards creaked under our feet. The crowd milled around, watching out ...

Product details

• Authors: Rick Riordan
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2008
• EAN: 9780553587845
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58784-5
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 191 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Tres Navarre; Tres Navarre
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense