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Description edit
The brilliant new Virgil Flowers thriller from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author. One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits... read more
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Characters edit
- Virgil Flowers: A Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator
- Lee Coakley: Female sheriff of a county in SW Minnesota
- Robert (Bob) Tripp: An athlete who should be playing freshman football in college, but who is working at a grain elevator as he rehabs a broken leg.
- Jacob Flood: Add a description of this character.
- Jim Crocker
- Lucas Davenport: Virgil Flowers' boss at the BCA and star of his own series by John Sandford (the Prey books).
Quotes edit
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“"I'm Rich," he said. Virgil nodded: Good for you. Hard to get that way, with all the high taxes."”
Virgil Flowers in chapter 11 -
“Virgil was neither a complete believer nor an unbeliever, though he was skeptical about God's interest in such things as divorce, debt, or dancing cheek to cheek, or much of anything that human beings got up to, short of murder, rape, or driving a Chrysler product.”
Virgil Flowers in chaper 14
Setting & Locations edit
- Warren County: Fictional county in SW Minnesota
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- Homestead
- Alma Flood
- Omaha
- Rouse
- Patras
- St. Paul
- Mankato
- Germany
- Cities
First Sentence edit
One of those days: late fall, bare black tree branches scratching at a churning gray sky, days cold, nights colder.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 4 of 6 in Virgil Flowers Series. (standard series)
Preceded by Rough Country, and followed by Shock Wave.
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Sandford (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 21, 2010
ISBN: 0399156909
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 21, 2010
ISBN: 0399156909
Page Count: 400
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- John Sanford: Author's website.
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