num_pages: 388
description: It's Virgil Flowers! And one of the thrilling novels in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.In Southeast Minnesota down on the Mississippi a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chair announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed due to a personnel issue. Issue is the correct word. It's also an understatement. The proposal up for a vote is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is unanimous five to zero in favor.Meanwhile not far away Virgil Flowers is helping a friend by looking into a dognapping. It seems to be turning into something much bigger and ugliera team of dognappers supplying medical labswhen he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been foundand the victim is a local reporter!Librarian's note: as of 2021 there are 13 volumes in the author's Virgil Flowers series. The last was published in April 2021. It is part of the Prey series but Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers share the billing - Ocean Prey.
language: English
title: Deadline
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons