Find Virgil
A Novel of Revenge
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Publisher Description
Get inside the mind of a serial killer as you never have before.
Is Martin Muntor a villain or victim?
Can you imagine yourself rooting for a madman to succeed in a terroristic plot to kill hundreds of people? Second-hand smoke gave Martin Muntor lung cancer, and he's mad. Very mad...and he's going to do something about it.
It’s 1995, and the tobacco industry thinks it’s invincible. But is it? Muntor devises an ingenious strategy to put cigarette companies out of business, and he doesn't care how many people he has to take with him in order to do it.
Hapless private investigator Tommy Rhoads has to find Muntor, and fast. But that's not going to be so easy. Muntor's smart and has nothing to lose, and the FBI doesn't want Rhoads's help. Rhoads has a lot at stake -- personally and professionally -- and is desperate to stop the killer.
Who’s right, and who’s wrong?
Read Find Virgil now, and go along for the wild ride.
You'll never forget it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
First published as Gasp in 1996, Freudberg's predictable debut still fails to thrill, despite a rewrite. In 1995, journalist Martin Muntor is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in Philadelphia. Martin, who has never smoked, sees himself as a victim ("like an unwilling Christ, made to pay for the sins of the world, as if all the damage they had done to themselves had been visited on him"). He dons the persona of Virgil, a serial killer who targets leaders in the tobacco industry as well as smokers by poisoning random cigarette packages. Meanwhile, W. Nicholas Pratt, the head of a tobacco company, offers PI Tommy Rhoads much-needed money if Tommy will spy on the FBI for him, as Pratt has secrets he can't have surfacing. An ex-cop with a drinking problem, Tommy believes the only way he can save himself from alcoholism is to buy a boat so he can make a living on the water. Too much backstory for each character and a sluggish pace doom this reboot. (BookLife)
