Sarah Armstrong #3
Minotaur Books
November 2010
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Featuring: Sarah Armstrong
320 pages ISBN: 0312379528 EAN: 9780312379520 Hardcover Add to Wish List
On a quiet afternoon in the park, four-year-old Joey plays
in the sandbox, when a stranger approaches looking for his
puppy. While Joey’s mom, Crystal, talks on her cell phone,
the stranger convinces the child to help search. By the time
Crystal turns around, her son has disappeared. Yet her
reaction is odd, not what one would expect from a distraught
mother. Is Crystal somehow involved in her son’s abduction?
Meanwhile, on a ranch outside Houston, Texas Ranger Sarah
Armstrong assesses a symbol left on the hide of a
slaughtered longhorn, a figure that dates back to a
forgotten era of sugarcane plantations and slavery. Soon
other prizewinning bulls are butchered on the outskirts of
the city, each bearing a similar drawing. The investigations
converge at the same time a catastrophic hurricane looms in
the Gulf. Finally, as dangerous winds and torrential rains
pummel the city, Sarah is forced to risk her life to save Joey.