The Last Good Guy
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3.8 • 15 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
In this electrifying new thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, Private Investigator Roland Ford hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark conspiracy in his most personal case yet.
When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman to find her missing younger sister, private investigator Roland Ford immediately senses that the case is not what it seems. He is soon swept up in a web of lies and secrets as he searches for the teenager, and even his new client cannot be trusted. His investigation leads him to a secretive charter school, skinhead thugs, a cadre of American Nazis hidden in a desert compound, an arch-conservative celebrity evangelist--and, finally, to the girl herself. The Last Good Guy is Ford's most challenging case to date, one that will leave him questioning everything he thought he knew about decency, honesty, and the battle between good and evil...if it doesn't kill him first.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In bestseller Parker's excellent third outing for San Diego, Calif., PI Roland Ford (after 2018's Swift Vengeance), 28-year-old Penelope Rideout, whose parents died 10 years earlier in a car crash, hires Ford to locate her missing 14-year-old sister, Daley, who has a "wild streak." When Ford goes to interview Nick Moreno, Daley's 20-year-old "guaranteed loser" boyfriend, he ends up talking to some neighbors who saw Daley leaving Nick's condo with "two men she seemed to know." Inside the condo, Ford finds Nick shot to death. The ensuing search for Daley involves a megachurch and its charismatic pastor, an unusually secretive private security firm, and a decommissioned nuclear power plant. Parker seamlessly integrates the backstories of Daley and Penelope while interspersing Ford's ruminations on his own troubled life (Ford is "the last good guy" of the title). The author does a masterly job of ratcheting up the tension, and the often lyrical prose is a pleasure to read. This entry could well earn three-time Edgar Award winner Parker a fourth Edgar. Author tour.
