num_pages: 400
description: Letty Davenport the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. Sandford fans rejoice! Davenport next generation has arrived and Letty is exactly the kind of cool-eyed smart-mouthed lethally dangerous heroine weve been waiting for. --Lisa Gardner author of One Step Too FarBy age twenty-four Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a masters in economics shes restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Lettys ready to quit but her skills have impressed Colles and he offers her a feet-on-the-ground investigative work in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Several oil companies in Texas have reported thefts of crude Colles tells her. He isnt so much concerned with the oil as he is with the who is selling the oil and what are they doing with the profits? Rumor has it that a fairly ugly militia group might be involved. Colles wants to know if the money is going to them and if so what theyre planning. Letty is partnered with a DHS investigator John Kaiser and they head to Texas. When the case quicky turns deadly they know theyre on the track of something bigger. The militia group has set in motion an explosive plan . . . and the clock is ticking down.
language: English
title: The Investigator
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons