Deadline
By: John Sandford
Series: A Virgil Flowers novels -- bk. 8
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780399162374
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: School boards; Murder; Journalists; Government investigators; Corrupt practices; Crimes against; Fiction; Dogs; Investigation; FICTION / Suspense; Medical laboratories; Dogs as laboratory animals; Pet theft; FICTION / Crime; Virgil Flowers (Fictitious character)
Description: In southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to a close. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether a local reporter should die. And the vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is doing a favor for a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier -- a team of dognappers supplying medical labs -- when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been found -- and the victim is a local reporter.