Tall and lanky, he wears his blond hair long, sports cowboy boots and hat, and has an aversion to guns. Virgil, is his ninth book in the series, is not your average cop. We meet a cast of fascinating characters inhabiting the environs of Minneapolis. The case is then assigned to state criminal investigator Virgil Flowers, and the chase begins. When it’s reasoned that these groups don’t have the resources for a well-planned operation to take off with 2,000 pounds of nasty predators, their worst fears surface: The guilty parties must be dealers in rare animal parts for use by purveyors of traditional Asian medicine. The zoo officials’ initial fear is that animal activists, opposed to the cats’ confinement, are the culprits. This story revolves around the theft of two rare Amur (Siberian) tigers from a Minnesota zoo. That’s a shame, for if the other novels are as good as this one, I’ve been missing out on a good read. He has a large following among mystery readers, yet for some reason, this is my introduction to his writing. Escape Clauseis John Sandford’s 44th novel.
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