The Eulogist
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
FBI Special Agent Drew Cady is reluctantly drawn into investigating the assassination of a sitting United States Senator. Strangely, the senator's death is linked to a murdered Baltimore junkie with an identical M.O.--a single stab wound to the heart and a typed eulogy left at the scene.
As Agent Cady deals with a professional hit man known only as the Canadian, a breakthrough Alzheimer's drug, a misanthropic hacker, and a Mexican drug cartel, he peels back the layers of deceit and comes to realize that even the reddest of red herrings can bite.
And unfortunately for all involved, the killings have just begun.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Burton's intricate third Drew Cady mystery (after 2015's The Lynchpin) takes the FBI special agent from the Minneapolis field office to Washington, D.C., where he joins special agent Elizabeth Preston in investigating the stabbing death of Sen. Taylor Brockman. Brockman's murder is quickly linked to the murder of troubled college kid TJ Aadalen, a scion of the powerful Aadalen Pharmaceutical family. After TJ went to prison for drug trafficking, Brockman, then the governor of Virginia, issued him a controversial pardon. Both Brockman and TJ were killed with a single, skilled knife thrust to the heart, and a sardonic eulogy note was left with each body. While Cady and Preston chase clues, an assassin identified only as the Canadian carries out assignments with brutal efficiency. A skilled hacker adds to the muddle. In the end, the rule-breaking Cady uses a blend of courage and smarts to untangle a farrago of crimes in an overloaded plot that some readers may have trouble following.
