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Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case—but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida.
A picture-perfect town on Florida's Gulf Coast, Paradise thrives on the wealthy tourists and retirees drawn to its gorgeous weather and beaches. The local police have ruled his aunt's death an unfortunate, tragic accident. But just before she died, she mailed a letter to Puller's father, telling him that beneath its beautiful veneer, Paradise is not all it seems to be.
What Puller finds convinces him that his aunt's death was no accident...and that the palm trees and sandy beaches of Paradise may hide a conspiracy so shocking that some will go to unthinkable lengths to make sure the truth is never revealed.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781607885795
- File size: 360371 KB
- Duration: 12:30:46
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The desecration of Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker's synagogue leads Peter into a complex investigation of hate crimes, murder, and family secrets. The L.A. detective tracks the source of the crimes through a web of insidious deception. Barrett Whitener unfolds the mystery with care, portraying characters clearly and distinctly. He's particularly good with the teens, including privileged, troubled Ernesto and Decker's son, Jacob. Whitener has a slight Southern softness to his tone that does not always suit some of the Los Angeles characters. His timing and pace, however, will keep listeners on edge throughout the gripping story. R.F.W. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine -
June 1, 2012
Last year's first John Puller thriller debuted in the top spot on the New York Times best sellers list, so fans will be waiting for this second in the series. Here, Puller doesn't believe that his Aunt Betsy's drowning death in her backyard pool was an accident--she sent a letter before she died saying that something was scaring her--and starts investigating. Basic thriller premise, Baldacci writing, buy multiples.
Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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February 15, 2013
"The next time you go on R and R, pick a safer place than Paradise." Mysterian Baldacci (The Sixth Man, 2011, etc.) serves up a gently ironic tale of mayhem, this time set in idyllic Florida. John Puller is a classic Baldacci character, a combat-wise Army special agent whose life has been spent in service. His ailing father, a retired general, has received a letter from his older sister, who has just died under questionable circumstances, and though it doesn't reveal much, it's enough for Puller to head south and begin poking around. Before long, he runs afoul of, then makes alliances with, the local gendarmerie. And because Puller is, after all, a hairy-chested dude who knows his way around guns and conspiracies and all that, pretty soon there's a dame involved. Two, even. Baldacci works all the angles with due skill; it's not Hammett or Chandler, but the prose is serviceable, the tale broadly entertaining. What is best is his showing Puller's line of reasoning as he attempts to figure out just what it was that his elderly aunt saw that led to her death--and when he finally does, how he deals with the culprit, who, suffice it to say, looks very good in a tight-fitting uniform. The cliches are refreshingly few, and Baldacci writes sympathetically of the not-so-golden years at the end of life, when Puller's father, once the commander of 100,000 men in battle, is "now intently watching a TV show where people guessed the prices of everyday stuff in an attempt to win more stuff." A solid thriller--though someone tell the fact checker that Bulgaria was never part of the Soviet Union.COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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