Resurrecting Langston Blue (CJ Floyd Mystery Series)
Carmen Nguyen escaped Vietnam as a toddler and, as an emergency-room doctor, has achieved a measure of success against long odds. Her father was an American serviceman, Langston Blue, who may or may not have deserted during a clandestine operation, but about whom nothing has been known for 40 years. Nguyen had assumed he was dead, but it turns out he may be alive and in danger. Nguyen hires Denver investigator CJ Floyd and his partner, Flora Jean Benson, a former marine intelligence sergeant, to find her father. Using her contacts in military intelligence, Benson learns Blue abandoned a rogue operation, and the other survivors of the mission may want him dead to ensure their involvement will never be revealed. This fourth Floyd mystery--Nguyen previously appeared in the stand-aloneHeat Shock(2003)--is a paranoid conspiracy theorist's dream come true. Or maybe it's a nightmare. Either way, it's an entertaining, white-knuckle thrill ride with the powers that be.Wes LukowskyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved