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Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" ( Booklist ).
The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are a great deal more extreme than others--as Virgil is about to find out.
Then there's the homefront. Virgil's relationship with his girlfriend Frankie has been getting kind of serious, but when Frankie's sister Sparkle moves in for the summer, the situation gets a lot more complicated. For one thing, her research into migrant workers is about to bring her up against some very violent people who emphatically do not want to be researched. For another...she thinks Virgil's kind of cute.
"You mess around with Sparkle," Frankie told Virgil, "you could get yourself stabbed."
"She carries a knife?"
"No, but I do."
Forget a storm--this one's a tornado.
Author Notes
John Sandford was born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Before entering the U.S. Army and serving in Korea, he received a bachelor's degree in American history from the University of Iowa in 1966. After leaving the service, he received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa.
During the 1970s, he worked at The Miami Herald, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1985, he began researching the lives of a farm family caught in the midst of the crisis of American farming. The article, Life on the Land: An American Farm Family, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing.
After winning the Pulitzer Prize, he began writing fiction. His works include the Prey series, the Virgil Flowers series, and The Singular Menace series. He has also written nonfiction works on plastic surgery and art.
Sandford's Young Adult novels, Uncaged and Outrage, Books 1 and 2 of The Singular Menace Series co-written with Michelle Cook, made the New York Times Bestseller list in July 2016.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The ninth book in Sandford's Virgil Flowers series has Virgil, an agent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and his crew hunting a pair of rare Amur tigers catnapped from the Minnesota Zoo. The 'napper is an opiate-snarfing sociopath named Winston Peck VI, whose partners in crime-a pair of brutish, guttural-voiced brothers-quickly become disposable to him. Reader Conger's semiamused, easygoing delivery sets the perfect mood for this offbeat, at times darkly humorous investigation. As blasé as his Virgil may seem in general, he's serious about earning his pay. And even more serious when, in a separate subplot, canning-factory thugs brutalize his girlfriend, Frankie, mistaking her for her sister who's been interviewing migrant workers for a dissertation. Conger's Peck sounds ever more manic as his scheme to kill the big cats and process their parts for high-end Chinese medical use unspools and his pill use increases. Both author and reader arrive at their suspenseful peak at the novel's slam-bang moment of truth-involving a weaponless Virgil, an armed, drugged-to-the-max Winston, and a ferociously hungry tiger. A Putnam hardcover. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Virgil Flowers, of Minnesotas Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, pivots from dognapping (Field of Prey, 2014, etc.) to a catnapping whose victims are really big cats.Its just as illegal in China as it is in the rest of the world to deal in so-called natural medicines derived from slain wild animals, but its much more common to ignore the Chinese laws, as California mobster Zhang Min does when he hires Winston Peck VI, an M.D. barred from practicing since he groped one too many unconscious patients, to steal a pair of Amur tigers from the Minnesota Zoo, kill them, and mine their bodies for all manner of nostrums. The theft, for which Peck brings in the none-too-bright fraternal pair Hayk and Hamlet Simonian, goes off without a hitch, and one of the cats is soon ready to be rendered, a process whose unlovely effects Sandford describes in exquisite detail. But when Virgil, called in to investigate, finds Hamlets fingerprint in a place where it definitely shouldnt be, Peck begins cutting his losses by eliminating his confederates, and the race is on: can Virgil find anyone whose evidence against Peck will stand up before Peck puts paid to the informant? Several subplots, from an animal rights activists vendetta against a dealer in animal products and parts to the beating of Frankie Nobles, Virgils current lover, are less interesting than the main event and therefore come across as padding. But Peck, who wonders if hes a psychopath or a spree killer and decides that for him, killing was simply a work-related task, is well worth your time. Perfect entertainment for readers whose hearts skip a beat when they worry that the hero wont be in time to rescue that remaining tiger from certain death. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* Two rare Siberian tigers are stolen from the Minneapolis Zoo. With most available law enforcement engaged in protecting the presidential candidates, who are campaigning at the state fair, the job of finding the tigers falls to Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The clock is ticking; the tigers were likely stolen for their body parts, worth a half-million dollars on the black market. Sandford shifts the point of view between Flowers and the thieves, who are holding the tigers in a rural Minnesota location. The the bad guys' matter-of-fact demeanor as they set about their grisly task is genuinely creepy. Mix in the man behind the tiger snatching, Winston Peck, a drug-addicted MD who went broke trying to start an Internet company featuring personalized nipple emojis, and you have all the makings of another Sandford romp. You can't make this stuff up, but, thankfully, Sandford can. As Flowers tracks down leads, the criminal enterprise begins to splinter. The tiger thieves don't really know what they're doing; Peck's Xanax habit is getting worse as Flowers circles him. Sandford has more New York Times best-sellers than most authors have novels. This will be another. It's imaginative, funny, and thoroughly engaging.--Lukowsky, Wes Copyright 2016 Booklist