Last Shot - Softcover

Hurwitz, Gregg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060731478 ISBN 13: 9780060731472

Publisher: Harper, 2007

Synopsis

Assigned to track down a dishonored recon Marine who escaped from an island penitentiary after causing the death of a murderous fellow inmate, Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley investigates the underworld of a large pharmaceutical company and finds himself questioning the circumstances under which his target was convicted. Reprint.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Hurwitz's compelling action hero, Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley (aka "the Troubleshooter"), takes on a formidable adversary in the fourth installment of this literate series (The Kill Clause, etc.). Walker Jameson, a veteran who survived hazardous duty during the first Iraq war, has managed against all odds to escape from California's Terminal Island Penitentiary. Jameson soon begins to leave a trail of bodies in his wake, and in order to forestall further slaughter, Rackley and his team must figure out why the prisoner broke out with only a short time left on his five-year sentence for stockpiling explosives. The clues point to a connection to the suicide of Jameson's sister, Theresa, who was seeking a new miracle drug manufactured by a powerful pharmaceutical company that offered the only ray of hope for her sick child. Hurwitz, who moves easily between the gritty scenes of violence and the more subtle abuses of power in corporate boardrooms, should gain new fans with this exciting thriller. (Sept.)
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Review:

"Hurwitz...should gain new fans with this exciting thriller." (Publishers Weekly)

"An exciting thriller...with and intelligence that is a welcome complement to the pulse-pounding action." (Chicago Sun-Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060731478
• ISBN 13: 9780060731472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496