Mad River (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
by:
John Sandford (author)
Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what’s-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree...
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Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what’s-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers’ cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run them down. But even he doesn’t realize what’s about to happen next.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399157707 (0399157700)
ASIN: 0399157700
Publish date: 2012-10-02
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
This book was not *quite* as good as the others. The series had been on an upward curve, and this one kinda dropped a little bit. Still not bad, and entertaining (as long as you like the genre, of course).The element of mystery was missing in here, since you pretty much know what's happening all the...
Another enjoyable audio listen, this time read by Eric Conger. This book is part of the Virgil Flowers series by Sandford. Flowers is a BCA (Bureau of Criminal Apprehension - weird name for a state police agency if there ever was one) agent working under Lucas Davenport who makes several cameo ap...
Published October 2nd 2012 by Putnam Adult
A little different from the usual Sandford: this is no mystery - we know whodunnit from page one. And I was disappointed that Virgil was not once referred to as "That fuckin' Flowers", which is the way he is usually introduced.Still, Sandford's characters are, as always, well drawn and funny, and th...
Virgil Flowers is a great spin off to the "Prey" series; although this book seemed a bit odd (as in different from the others in the series) to me, it was still an excellent read. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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