Shadows of Death
A Desert Sky Mystery
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Seth Parker is considered a terrorist by the FBI and is credited with many unusual deaths in Southern California. A man who cut the beaks off of pelicans is found dead and lipless. Another man who ran a dog fighting ring is found torn apart by his own dogs. Two boys who posted a YouTube video of themselves blowing up cats are missing, and no one expects to find them in one piece.
When Parker kills two poachers in the Mojave Desert for shooting burros, he falls into Frank Flynn's orbit. The problem is that Flynn sympathizes with Parker more than he should. Because of this connection and his intimate knowledge of the desert, Flynn seems able to anticipate Parker's next moves, though he is always one step behind.
With the opening of Sand Canyon, Flynn finds himself in the awkward position of having to protect an exclusive hunting resort. He'll have to come to terms with this duty, if he's to stay alive.
David Sundstrand's second novel gives more incredible descriptions of the desert and a riveting story.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sundstrand's absorbing second mystery to feature Bureau of Land Management agent Frank Flynn (after 2007's Shadow of the Raven) pays homage to Richard Connell's classic short story "The Most Dangerous Game." The FBI suspects the shooting of two poachers who'd been killing wild burros in California's Mojave desert is the work of an extremist animal rights group whose aim, according to its leader, Seth Parker, is "justice for the innocent, an eye for an eye or a lip for a beak." The planned opening of an exclusive hunting club with imported exotic prey provides Parker with a tempting target and the half-Irish, half-Paiute Flynn, who used to be a small arms instructor in the military, with a nearly impossible challenge. There's plenty of collateral damage as Flynn and Parker maneuver before the inevitable final confrontation. Sundstrand knows this rugged territory well and the kind of denizens it attracts, and he's adept at describing both.
