Wolf Pass - Hardcover

Thayer, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399149910 ISBN 13: 9780399149917

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 2003

Synopsis

Wrongfully labeled a chief suspect after a railroad engineer and his young wife are shot by a long-range sniper, deputy sheriff and former wartime army ranger P. A. Pennington finds his worst nightmare coming true when he realizes an old nemesis, Nazi colonel Christian Wolfgang Stangl, has returned. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Thayer is the author of five novels, including The Weatherman and Silent Snow.

From Publishers Weekly:

Thayer brings back Deputy Sheriff P.A. Pennington of Kickapoo County, Wis. (hero of last year's The Wheat Field), who singlehandedly solves a set of sniper murders in which he is the chief suspect. The thriller is set in 1962, when Pennington is running for sheriff. As a Catholic, he meets with a good deal of suspicion from his largely Protestant electorate. That suspicion gets new focus when the double murder of a railway engineer and his wife disrupts the campaign, as the wife is a former lover of Pennington's. The engineer is shot at long range, and Pennington, a brilliant sharpshooter during WWII, is the obvious suspect in both murders. Yet he has a strong hunch about the real identity of the killer: former SS officer Col. Wolfgang Stangl. During the war, Pennington had escaped from a prison camp that Stangl directed. Now, Pennington believes, Stangl has come to the U.S. to set him up in a complicated revenge plot-and, what's worse, Stangl seems to be plotting to assassinate President Kennedy. Needless to say, Kickapoo law enforcement finds this story a bit far-fetched. But Pennington has a comely female Scotland Yard detective on his side, who mysteriously shows up in Kickapoo to help him out with the case. Their attempts to unveil Stangl bring the novel to a stunning climax. This fast-paced, sexy suspense novel also offers a snapshot of postwar ethnic and social rivalries in the bucolic fictional Wisconsin county.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0399149910
• ISBN 13: 9780399149917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251