Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction

Format - Paperback

Condition - Excellent

Listed - 12 days ago

Ships From - Pennsylvania

Est. Publication Date - Jul 2012

Burrows: Constable Ned Parker's retirement is cut short when Center Springs, Texas, becomes the latest stop for a murderer who has already hit Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma on his deadly spree. A dead man hooked to fishing lines in the river draws Ned into the investigation to back up his nephew Cody, the new Constable and Vietnam vet. Cody and Deputy John Washington, the law south of the tracks, follow a lead from their small community to the long abandoned Cotton Exchange warehouse in Chisum. The building is a hoarder's paradise: each floor is stuffed to the ceiling with garbage, furniture, books, tools, tires, rats, and filth. But this maze of junk is also host to booby-traps, shafts, and bales. Was this lair built out of desperation or designed to torture and kill anyone trying to capture the elusive killer? Despite Ned's warnings, Cody dives into the building where he confronts both his own demons and a killer intent on destruction....

Publisher Description

"The cinematic characters have substance and style. They walk off the page and talk Texas." --The Dallas Morning News Constable Ned Parker's retirement is cut short when Center Springs, Texas, become...