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008 160815s2016 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a2016030850
020 _a0399168915 :
_c$29.00
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
042 _apcc
043 _an-us-mn
050 0 0 _aPS3569.A516
_bE83 2016
082 0 0 _a813/.54
_223
100 1 _aSandford, John,
_d1944 February 23-
_eauthor
_93049
245 1 0 _aEscape clause /
_cJohn Sandford
300 _a392 pages ;
_c24 cm
510 4 _aBooklist,
_cAugust 01, 2016
510 4 _aPublishers Weekly,
_cAugust 01, 2016
510 4 _aKirkus Reviews,
_cAugust 01, 2016
510 4 _aLibrary Journal Prepub Alert,
_cApril 25, 2016
520 _a"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. 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. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are a great deal more extreme than others -- as Virgil is about to find out. Then there's the homefront. 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. 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. For another
521 1 _aAdult.
_bBrodart
521 2 _aAdult.
_bBrodart
650 0 _aFlowers, Virgil (Fictitious character)
_vFiction
_94000
650 0 _aGovernment investigators
_zMinnesota
_vFiction
_94001
655 7 _aMystery fiction.
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_99576
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_cBK
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