Midnight Guardians
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A case of Medicare fraud leads a Florida PI into much darker territory in this crime novel by an Edgar Award winner.
Private investigator Max Freeman makes his living tracking down the criminals lurking amid the beaches and trailer parks of south Florida. His latest case involves a conspiracy to defraud Medicare—but he quickly discovers there's more to it than a simple scam.
Soon the former Philadelphia cop is calling upon all his old street instincts when an ex-drug kingpin known as the Brown Man turns up—and Freeman's girlfriend, Det. Sherry Richards, is put in harm's way.
Midnight Guardians is an atmospheric, edge-of-your-seat crime novel by an author whose "descriptions of Florida's backwaters put him right up there with James W. Hall and Randy Wayne White—excellent company indeed" (Chicago Tribune).
This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Edgar-winner King's captivating sixth Max Freeman thriller (after 2007's Acts of Nature), the Florida PI, formerly a Philadelphia street cop, agrees to help nurse Luz Carmen, a whistle-blower in a case concerning the theft of Medicare and Medicaid patient numbers. Luz fears more for the life of her brother, who's delivering the numbers to the crooks in the fraud scheme, than for her own. Max also has to worry about protecting his detective girlfriend, Sherry Richards, to whom a troubled deputy has given the names of some shady associates. Max and Luz wind up hiding in the Everglades, where Max finds solace ("the leaving of noise and machinery and stops signs and unnatural lighting... calms even the most turbulent soul"). Sharp characterization and the vivid picture of South Florida's dwindling natural treasures more than compensate for a standard plot involving police treachery.
