Missing in Precinct Puerto Rico
Book Four
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Publisher Description
Angustias, Puerto Rico, 1982
Even a tropical paradise can have its little murders...
In the early morning hours, a neighbor named Tomas Villareal knocks on the door of the home of Luis Gonzalo, the sheriff of Angustias, a small town in the mountains of Puerto Rico. Tomas reports that his son is missing, and the sheriff agrees to help search for the boy. Gonzalo is certain there is a simple explanation--that the child has just wandered off to visit a friend or fallen asleep in a field.
But then a second child is reported missing, and there are no clues to her whereabouts either. Soon the sheriff, the parents, and the entire town are searching frantically, but the horrors have only just begun. Gonzalo begins to suspect an organized plot to harm the children of Angustias, and he races against the clock to prevent the town's children from disappearing one by one.
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Torres's flat-footed fourth installment in his Luis Gonzalo series (after 2004's Burning Precinct Puerto Rico) takes a parent's worst nightmare as its grim premise: children are disappearing from the small Puerto Rican town of Angustias. Sheriff Gonzalo is distracted briefly by a red herring Los Macheteros, a violent, fringe political group that wants independence from the U.S. before he's filled with righteous horror at the true nature of the crimes. When Gonzalo's deputy runs down a suspicious car a chase that ends with the paralysis of the driver and death of his young passenger and finds child pornography in the car wreck, the lawmen discover that American pedophiles are kidnapping children as sex slaves. Whether readers can stomach gratuitous violence and sexual deviancy will determine their appetite for this crime novel.
