The theft, for which Peck brings in the none-too-bright fraternal pair Hayk and Hamlet Simonian, goes off without a hitch, and one of the cats is soon ready to be rendered, a process whose unlovely effects Sandford describes in exquisite detail. barred from practicing since he groped one too many unconscious patients, to steal a pair of Amur tigers from the Minnesota Zoo, kill them, and mine their bodies for all manner of nostrums. It’s just as illegal in China as it is in the rest of the world to deal in so-called natural medicines derived from slain wild animals, but it’s much more common to ignore the Chinese laws, as California mobster Zhang Min does when he hires Winston Peck VI, an M.D. “You mess around with Sparkle,” Frankie told Virgil, “you could get yourself stabbed.” “She carries a knife?” “No, but I do.” Forget a storm – this one’s a tornado.Virgil Flowers, of Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, pivots from dognapping ( Field of Prey, 2014, etc.) to a catnapping whose victims are really big cats. For another…she thinks Virgil’s kind of cute. For one thing, her research into migrant workers is about to bring her up against some very violent people who emphatically do not want to be researched. Virgil’s relationship wi th his girlfriend Frankie has been getting kind of serious, but when Frankie’s sister Sparkle moves in for the summer, the situation gets a lot more complicated. Some of them are a great deal more extreme than others - as Virgil is about to find out. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need.
Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they’ve been stolen for their body parts. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are “pure reading pleasure” (Booklist)The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm.
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