The Last King of Texas

Zusatztext "Raise your margarita to Rick Riordan.... This tale of revenge and remorse sizzles and skids like drops of water on a hot skillet."— Texas Monthly "Starts off with a literal bang and then gathers speed from there."— Entertainment Weekly "If not the king of Texas crime writing! Rick Riordan is certainly among the princes in a royal family that already includes James Lee Burke."— Denver Post "Riordan writes so well about the people and topography of his Texas hometown that he quickly marks the territory as his own."— Chicago Tribune 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 Multiple-award-winning author Rick Riordan brings back smart-mouthed Texas P.I. Tres Navarre for his most dangerous case yet. If you think the academic world is deadly dull, you're half right.... When a controversial English professor is found shot to death, Tres Navarre - P.I. and Ph.D. - is the only local academic crazy enough to accept the emergency opening at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Police assure him they already have a suspect, so while they wrap up the open-and-shut case, all Tres has to do is teach three classes, grade on a curve ... and walk in a dead man's shoes. It should be an easy assignment - but one thing Tres doesn't do is easy. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn't stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin - and lands in a high-stakes game of gangster honor on the darkest streets of San Antonio's West Side.... 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 Leseprobe Dr. David Mitchell waved me toward the dead professor's chair. "Try it out, son." Mitchell and Detective DeLeon sat down on the students' side of the desk, the safe side. I took the professor's chair. It was padded in cushy black leather and smelled faintly of sports cologne. Walnut armrests. Great back support. Mitchell smiled. "Comfortable?" "I'd be more so," I told him, "if the last two people who sat here hadn't died." Mitchell's smile thinned. He glanced at Detective DeLeon, got no help there, then looked wearily around the office -- the cluttered bookshelves, file cabinets topped with dreadlocks of dying pothos plants, the tattered Bayeux tapestry posters on the walls. "Son, Dr. Haimer's death was a heart attack." "After receiving death threats and being driven out of the job," I recalled. "And Haimer's successor?" Detective DeLeon sat forward. "That was a .45, Mr. Navarre." When DeLeon moved, her blazer and skirt and silk blouse shimmered in frosty shades of gray, all sharp creases and angles. Her hair was cut in the same severe pattern, only black. Her eyes glittered. The whole effect reminded me of one of those sleek, fashionable Sub-Zero freezer units, petite size. She tugged an incident report out of the folder in her lap, passed me a color Polaroid of Dr. Aaron Brandon -- the University of Texas at San Antonio's new medievalist for one-half of one glorious spring semester. The photo showed a middle-aged Anglo man crumpled like a marionette in front of a...

Product details

• Authors: Rick Riordan
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.04.2001
• EAN: 9780553579918
• ISBN: 978-0-553-57991-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Tres Navarre; Tres Navarre
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature