The Long Way Out
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Franky Dast is an unlikely hero.
Wrongly convicted and later exonerated of killing two boys, Franky went on to uncover the real murderer. Now a 'free man' but living on the edges of society, for some he will always be tainted by his dark past.
That's why a desperate Mexican family turn to him, rather than trust the authorities, to help them track down their teenage daughter's murderer. He is compelled to help but comes up against the detectives who wrongly put him away, and people who are determined to blame the dead girl.
When another body shows up and he is personally threatened, Franky doubles-down on his investigation. Can Franky stop this vicious killer and find his own way out of his personal hell before it's too late?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in North Florida, Wiley's strong sequel to 2017's Monument Road matches an unusual protagonist with a plausible and gripping plot. Nine years earlier, Dast was convicted of murdering two adolescent brothers based on perjured police testimony. He spent three years on death row, and five more in a Supermax facility, before his exoneration. Dast's success after his release in finding the brothers' real killer demonstrated his talent as an investigator. Those skills are sought by a desperate family when 14-year-old Antonia Soto, a Mexican immigrant, goes missing. Dast, who's been working at a rescue facility for big cats, regularly picks up chicken carcasses to feed his charges from a poultry farm where the teen's father worked. He got to know Antonia in the process, but refuses to help look for her, believing her disappearance was probably voluntary. That decision haunts him after her body is found with a gunshot wound in the back of her head. Dast investigates her murder and a second, possibly related one. Wiley carefully balances story developments with his exploration of the psyche of a lead committed to justice despite being denied it. A third series entry is more than warranted.
