The Lynchpin
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Publisher Description
Special Agent Drew Cady has waved goodbye to Washington, D.C., and ten years of chasing violent felons in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Criminal Investigative Division (CID).
He is on the mend, both physically and emotionally, as he helps run his fiancée’s resort in northern Minnesota while working part-time on the FBI’s Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Minneapolis. Chasing white collar criminals is a far cry from hunting serial killers and Cady basks in the glow of his newer, more laid-back lifestyle, that is, until a young woman’s body possessing a most-disturbing characteristic is pulled from Lake Superior outside of Duluth. And if being ordered to investigate this case isn’t bad enough, Cady’s former boss—Assistant Director of CID Roland Jund—has killed a fellow agent and stands accused of being a spy.
Now Agent Cady must draw upon every last bit of experience he has to clear his friend’s name while at the same time ensuring that no more innocent lives are extinguished by a sadistic killer with a taste for blood. But nobody is who they appear to be and information is only as reliable as its source.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Burton's sequel to 2012's The Chessman falls short of the high standard set by its impressive predecessor. FBI agent Drew Cady has taken a break from the pursuit of violent psychopaths to serve a stint on the Minneapolis Medicare Fraud Strike Force, and to solidify his relationship with resort manager Terri Ingram, but he soon becomes involved in two separate homicide cases. After 23-year-old Katrina Mortensen is fished out of Lake Superior, the police discover that she was drained of her blood and infused with embalming fluid while she was still alive. Meanwhile, Cady's old boss, Roland Jund, an FBI assistant director, claims he strangled an intruder who attacked him in his house in the middle of the night. When the dead man is identified as the husband of Jund's lover, his assertion of self-defense becomes a harder sell. Fans of The Chessman dismayed by the routine plotting that follows will hope Burton returns to form next time.
