Mad River - Softcover

John Sandford

4.21

23,938 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471111806 ISBN 13: 9781471111808

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2013

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-10-10 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster Bonnie and Clyde. they thought And whats-his-name. the sidekick Three teenagers with dead-end lives. and chips on their.. shoulders. and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then. hell. why not keep on going As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota. some of it captured on the killers cell phones and sent to a local television station. Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run them down. But even he doesnt realize whats about to happen next.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John Sandford is the author of the Prey series, four Kidd novels and the Virgil Flowers series. He lives in Minnesota. Visit www.johnsandford.org for more information.

From Booklist:

*Starred Review* Three rural Minnesota teenagers, Jimmy Sharp, Becky Welsh, and Tom McCall, are on a crime spree. It started with the murder of a store clerk during a botched robbery. Victim number two died in a car heist as they made their getaway. Then they decide “what the hell” and settle a couple of personal scores. The kids are murderous but not dumb, and they avoid capture from an ever-growing cadre of pursuers that includes Virgil Flowers from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Flowers is the nominal head of the investigation, but he struggles to keep control of the various law-enforcement agencies involved. He’s determined to take the kids alive, an end game that’s not endorsed by his associates. As the pursuit continues, he’s able to establish phone contact with Welsh. At least one of the killers has moved from abstraction to human, and Flowers becomes more determined than ever to bring them in alive. Flowers is a complex character camouflaged by his long hair, rock-’n’-roll T-shirts, smart mouth, and fearlessness. The son of a minister, he is burdened by a spirituality that subtly influences his every decision. It’s more pronounced in this case as he fights the pack’s need for revenge and, in the end, leaves readers assessing the morality of the kids as well as their pursuers. This may be the best entry in a stellar series. --Wes Lukowsky

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.