Lake Country
A Novel
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
SOME CRIMES HAVE NO PUNISHMENT.
SOME BATTLES NEVER END.
Five years ago, successful architect Wade Benson killed a young woman when he fell asleep at the wheel. His punishment: two days in jail for every year of his probation. But for one friend of the victim’s family—an ex-marine named Darryl Potter—this punishment isn’t enough. Potter sets out to even the score by kidnapping Benson’s twenty-year-old daughter. It’s a bad, bad plan, and only Mike Barlowe, Potter’s former combat buddy, knows how to stop it. With a beautiful news reporter, the cops, and a bounty hunter on Potter’s tail, Barlowe races to head off his troubled friend before innocent people get hurt. The hunters and the hunted plunge north into Minnesota’s Lake Country, each with their own ambitions and demons, each headed for a violent collision—and for one horrifying moment of life or death.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fans of such regional mystery specialists as Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton will welcome this twisted tale of crime and punishment gone awry set in Minnesota lake country from Barry Award winner Doolittle (Safer). Buddies Darryl Potter and Mike Barlowe lead lives of quiet desperation, drinking too much and reminiscing about the not-so-good-ol'-days in Afghanistan, where as soldiers they watched friends and foes die. When Darryl commits an improbable crime to mark the anniversary of a senseless tragedy, Mike sets out to right the wrong and save both the victim and his buddy, but things don't turn out as planned. Mike soon has dogged reporter Maya Lamb, self-promotion king Buck Morningside, bookie Toby Lunden, fugitive hunter/thug Bryce, and a phalanx of law enforcement agencies on his trail. Much collateral damage follows with lives lost and others dramatically altered. The skillfully evoked landscape and compellingly flawed characters help make this a winner.
