Dark of the Moon - Virgil Flowers Novel

Zusatztext “Sandford keeps the reader guessing and the pages turning while Flowers displays the kind of cool and folksy charm that might force Davenport to share the spotlight more often.”—* Publishers Weekly “Flowers is a welcome addition to [Sandford’s] body of work.”— Chicago Sun-Times “[Sandford] maintains the page-turning momentum that makes his novels such a treat. If you liked Lucas! you’ll love Virgil.”— The Tampa Tribune “A book that will keep you turning pages! guessing! and completely immersed—and engrossed—in whatever Sandford wants to throw at you. It’s a great ride! and Sandford proves that sometimes it’s not the character! it’s not the series! it’s the writer.”— The Post and Courier “An adrenaline rush peppered with laugh-out-loud moments.”— Booklist Informationen zum Autor John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of twenty-six Prey novels (most recently Extreme Prey ); four Kidd novels; eight Virgil Flowers novels; two YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook; and three other books, including Saturn Run . He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Klappentext The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. "Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford's Prey series, gets a chance to shine...The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on his own.."* He's been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he's never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Three weeks before, a doctor and his wife were murdered. Three homicides in Bluestem in just as many weeks is unheard of. It's also no coincidence. And it's far from over... Leseprobe DARK OF THE MOON ALSO BY JOHN SANDFORD Rules of Prey Shadow Prey Eyes of Prey Silent Prey Winter Prey Night Prey Mind Prey Sudden Prey The Night Crew Secret Prey Certain Prey Easy Prey Chosen Prey Mortal Prey Naked Prey Hidden Prey Broken Prey Dead Watch Invisible Prey KIDD NOVELS The Fool’s Run The Empress File The Devil’s Code The Hanged Man’s Song DARK OF THE MOON JOHN SANDFORD G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK Acknowledgment Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Acknowledgment This book was written in cooperation with my friend Larry Millett, an architectural writer (The Curve of the Arch, Lost Twin Cities), local historian (Strange Days, Dangerous Nights), and occasional novelist (Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon and four other tales featuring Holmes and Irish barkeep Shadwell Rafferty). Millett was recently described in a general-circulation magazine as “handsome,” which threw me into paroxysms of jealousy, but which, in the end, did not deflect us from our appointed deadline…. —JOHN SANDFORD 1 SIX GARBAGE BAGS full of red cedar shavings, purchased two at a time for a dollar a bag, at midnight, at the s...

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Sandford keeps the reader guessing and the pages turning while Flowers displays the kind of cool and folksy charm that might force Davenport to share the spotlight more often. *Publishers Weekly

Flowers is a welcome addition to [Sandford s] body of work. Chicago Sun-Times

[Sandford] maintains the page-turning momentum that makes his novels such a treat. If you liked Lucas, you ll love Virgil. The Tampa Tribune

A book that will keep you turning pages, guessing, and completely immersed and engrossed in whatever Sandford wants to throw at you. It s a great ride, and Sandford proves that sometimes it s not the character, it s not the series, it s the writer. The Post and Courier

An adrenaline rush peppered with laugh-out-loud moments. Booklist

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• Authors: John Sandford
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2008
• EAN: 9780425224137
• ISBN: 978-0-425-22413-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 192 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Virgil Flowers; A Virgil Flowers Novel; A Virgil Flowers Novel; Virgil Flowers; Virgil Flowers Novel
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense