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Putnam
September 2009
On Sale: September 3, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 0399155791
EAN: 9780399155796
Kindle: B002N83HG6
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Another exhilarating thriller from Edgar Award winner
David Ellis, introducing the new series protagonist Jason
Kolarich.
Jason Kolarich is a midwestern Everyman
with a lineman’s build and an easy smart-ass remark. He’s a
young, intelligent maverick, but he’s also struggling with
an overwhelming emotional burden—one that threatens to
unravel his own life, and possibly the lives of those around
him.
Twenty-seven years ago, two-year-old Audrey
Cutler disappeared from her home in the middle of the night.
She was never found. All the detectives had to go on were
vague eyewitness accounts of a man running down the Cutlers’
street, apparently carrying someone. Without enough evidence
to suggest otherwise, Griffin Perlini—a neighbor with prior
offenses against minors—was arrested, but never
convicted.
The case is long closed when Perlini is
murdered nearly thirty years later. Now a man named Mr.
Smith appears in Jason Kolarich’s office, saying only that
he represents a third party who wants the man charged with
murder off the hook and that Kolarich is perfect for the
job. The new client: Audrey Cutler’s older brother,
Sammy—Kolarich’s estranged childhood best friend—a man he
hasn’t seen in nearly twenty years.
But when
Kolarich starts receiving violent threats from Mr. Smith’s
enigmatic employer, he figures out that the secrecy behind
this nameless third party—and the key to winning Sammy’s
case—is entangled with the mystery of Audrey’s
disappearance. With his own life and Sammy’s in the balance,
Kolarich has to put aside not only the mounting anxiety of
the job but also a heart-wrenching personal tragedy in order
to find out what really happened to Audrey all those years ago.
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