“You mess around with Sparkle,” Frankie told Virgil, “you could get yourself stabbed.” “She carries a knife?” “No, but I do. Escape Clause by John Sandford Paperback Book Virgil Flowers 9 NEW Seller Discount: 10 off 3+ Bundle 7.97 Expedited (1-3 day) Shipping on all orders. It follows Sandford’s usual formula: the talented but irreverent cop, an odd crime that escalates into murder and mayhem, the inevitable scrapes and risks, and culminating with the capture/end of the bad guy (s). For another…she thinks Virgil’s kind of cute. Escape Clause is a very predictable and familiar entry in the Virgil Flowers series. For one thing, her research into migrant workers is about to bring her up against some very violent people who emphatically do not want to be researched. Virgil’s relationship with his girlfriend Frankie has been getting kind of serious, but when Frankie’s sister Sparkle moves in for the summer, the situation gets a lot more complicated. Some of them are a great deal more extreme than others-as Virgil is about to find out. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they’ve been stolen for their body parts. The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are “pure reading pleasure” ( Booklist ). Summary: Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm.
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