![]() This gives away none of the plot, since Sandford shows us the criminals’ circumstances and machinations while Flowers tries to track them down. Flowers meticulously re-creates the nearly impossible robbery from tire tracks and fingerprints, while Winston Peck VI, a doctor discredited for fondling his female patients, oversees the tiger kidnapping, working with Zhang Xiaomin, the son of a criminal distributor from China. This time two Amur tigers, Artur and Katya, are stolen from the Minnesota Zoo to be killed and distilled into various parts for ancient Chinese medicinal cures. Both cops operate in and around the vast plains of corn and beans in the Minnesota-Wisconsin area, where bad guys can hide out and the landscape becomes its own mysterious labyrinth. We first see him skinny-dipping with his girlfriend, her sister, and an assistant priest. The other’s surfer-looking dude Virgil Flowers, more laid back and a kind of populist policeman. ![]() ![]() One of his heroes is Lucas Davenport, a rich, urbane Minnesota detective/cop. John Sandford is another one of those mystery writers who, after reading one of his books, I read every book I can get my hands on. ![]() ![]() "Escape Clause: A Virgil Flowers Novel," by John Sandford. ![]()
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