Book : Dark Of The Moon (a Virgil Flowers Novel) - Sandford,

-Titulo Original : Dark Of The Moon (a Virgil Flowers Novel)

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G.P. Putnams Sons

-Descripcion Original:

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... Review “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 About the Author 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. DARK OF THE MOONALSO BY JOHN SANDFORDRules of PreyShadow PreyEyes of PreySilent PreyWinter PreyNight PreyMind PreySudden PreyThe Night CrewSecret PreyCertain PreyEasy PreyChosen PreyMortal PreyNaked PreyHidden PreyBroken PreyDead WatchInvisible PreyKIDD NOVELSThe Fool’s RunThe Empress FileThe Devil’s CodeThe Hanged Man’s SongDARK OF THE MOONJOHN SANDFORDG. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORKAcknowledgmentChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25Chapter 26AcknowledgmentThis 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 1SIX GARBAGE BAGS full of red cedar shavings, purchased two at a time for a dollar a bag, at midnight, at the self-serve shed at Dunstead & Daughter Custom Furniture, serving your fine cabinetry needs since 1986. No cameras, no lights, no attendant, no theft, no problem.Moonie stacked the bags in the basement, Cross Canadian Ragweed pounding through the iPod ear-buds, singing about those dead-red lips; then up the stairs, pulling the ear-buds, to where the old man lay facedown on the rug, shaking, kicking, crying, trying to get free. Tied with cheap hemp rope, but no matter. The old man was so old and so feeble that string would have worked as well as rope.“Please,” he groaned, “don’t hurt me.”Moonie laughed, a long singing rock ’n’ roll laugh, and at the end of it, said, “I’m not going to hurt you. I’m going to kill you.”“What do you want