Little, Brown and Co.
Featuring: Adam Austin; Kent Austin
416 pages ISBN: 0316122610 EAN: 9780316122610 Kindle: B0076DFIRE Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
For the past several years, brothers Adam and Kent Austin
have barely spoken, even though they reside in the same
town they grew up in, Chambers, Ohio, and Adam still lives
in their family home. Adam is a bail bondsman/PI, while
Kent is the revered football coach at the local high
school. Each of them is dealing with a traumatic event in
their past that's kept them distanced for over 20 years.
When Adam was 18, he chose to be with his girlfriend after
football practice one day rather than walk his 16-year-old
sister, Marie, five blocks to their home. No one ever saw
Marie after that -- she was abducted and killed. It tore the
family apart, especially Adam's relationship with then 15-
year-old Kent. Since then, each has dealt with the tragic
event in totally different ways. But the past is about to
collide with the present in a horrific way.
Teenager Rachel Bond hires Adam to locate her father, who's
just been released from prison and is living in the area.
The facts he uncovers and gives to Rachel end up sending
her right into the arms of a killer. Adam is devastated to
be the cause of another young girl's murder and vows to not
only apprehend the man responsible, but to kill him.
Rachel's boyfriend is the star receiver on the football
team that Kent coaches, which throws the brothers together
again dealing with murder. What they don't expect is that
Kent will start receiving threats from the murderer,
especially when it's Adam who's hunting for him. Confused
by this development, Adam promises to protect Kent and his
family. He won't let more people be killed because of him.
Will Adam be able to figure out the identity of the
murderer -- and be able to kill him -- in time?
Michael Koryta's THE PROPHET is a dynamic thriller
with lots of twists and surprises in its fast-moving plot.
Character and plot development is exemplary making it a
must-read.
Adam Austin hasn't spoken to his brother in years. When
they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and
murdered, and their devastated family never recovered. Now
Adam keeps to himself, scraping by as a bail bondsman,
working so close to the town's criminal fringes that he
sometimes seems a part of them.
Kent Austin is the beloved coach of the local high school
football team, a religious man and hero in the community.
After years of near misses, Kent's team has a shot at the
state championship, a welcome point of pride in a town that
has had its share of hardships.
Just before playoffs begin, the town and the team are
thrown into shock when horrifically, impossibly, another
teenage girl is found murdered. When details emerge that
connect the crime to the Austin brothers, the two are
forced to unite to stop a killer - and to confront their
buried rage and grief before history repeats itself again.
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