Forty thieves
By: Thomas Perry
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9781410488381
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Assassins; Large type books; Ex-police officers; Married people; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Fiction
Description: Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common -- until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. The previous spring, after days of torrential rain, a body was recovered from one of the city's overwhelmed storm sewers. The victim was identified as James Ballantine, a middle-aged African-American who worked as a research scientist for a prestigious company and was well liked by his colleagues. But two bullets to the back of the head looked like nothing if not foul play. Now, with the case turning cold, Ballantine's former employers bring in the Abels to succeed where the police have failed, while the Hoyts' mysterious contractors want to make sure that the facts about Ballantine's death stay hidden.