Part of Virgil Flowers, book 5
First published 2011
Virgil Flowers faces a case where corporate expansion meets violent resistance. PyeMart wants to build in a Minnesota river town, sparking fury from local business owners and environmental activists. Neither group can stop the project through protests alone. Someone takes a different approach. A bomb rips through PyeMart's headquarters top floor. Another explosion rocks the construction site. Both blasts cause maximum destruction. Flowers must identify the bomber and predict their next move. The investigation pits him against desperate people who believe they're fighting for their community's survival. Each side has compelling reasons to resort to violence. Flowers races to solve the case before the bomber strikes again and more people die.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigative-journalism, race-against-time
Setting: Minnesota
Period: 21st-century
388 pages · Hardcover · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Content warnings: violence