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Rushmore McKenzie agrees to go undercover to help the ATF track a cache of stolen guns--after all, what could possible go wrong?
Rushmore McKenzie is both a millionaire and an unlicensed PI, which means he can afford to do the occasional favor and, as a former detective for the St. Paul (Minnesota) Police Department, he's got the necessary skills and connections to do them right. But this time, he's really stepped in it.
When the ATF gets a lead on a much sought-after cache of illegal guns near the Canadian border, they call McKenzie in to help them track down the elusive gunrunners. Their only lead is a guy who is part of a small-time gang of armed robbers working north of the Twin Cities. Their idea is for McKenzie to infiltrate the group and wait for them to lead him to the guns. Their plan is to fix McKenzie with a false identity as a serious bad guy and then fake an escape with the captured gang member.Which seemed like a bad idea to McKenzie at the time, but even he had no idea just how bad things were going to get.
Author Notes
Former newspaper reporter David Housewright left his job to pursue a full-time career in detective fiction writing. Housewright then introduced Holland Taylor, his recurrent main character in his books Penance and Practice to Deceive. He won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Shamus Award for Best P. I. Novel for his writing in Penance.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Outstanding ingenuity and empathy mark Edgar-winner Housewright's 10th mystery featuring millionaire St. Paul, Minn., ex-cop Rushmore McKenzie (after 2012's Curse of the Jade Lilly). As part of an ATF operation to recover stolen guns from the notoriously botched real-life Operation Fast and Furious, McKenzie successfully infiltrates the inept Iron Range Bandits, made up of an extended family that has drifted into armed robbery because of economic hard times. The only way to discover the source of their weapons is to plan a major heist-except that McKenzie finds himself caring about the sad-sack family members and doesn't want to involve them in more criminal activity. But crooked cops and a creepily malevolent local crime boss insist that the robbery proceed so that they can split the loot. Tension builds as the action accelerates. Quirkily sympathetic characters make this more than a clever caper novel; Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport no longer have northern Minnesota all to themselves. Agent: Alison Pickard, Alison J. Picard Agency. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Here's the ninth Rushmore McKenzie novel. For series fans, that's all that needs to be said, but newcomers might need a bit more information. Rushmore was a detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, before he resigned from the police department so he could collect a seven-figure reward for busting a major embezzler. Now independently wealthy, he's a sort of crimesolver-for-hire. Here Rushmore is recruited by the ATF to infiltrate a gang of gunrunners, a plan that seems dicey to start with and positively suicidal once he's in too deep to extricate himself without somebody noticing. If you took a modern-day noir and mixed it with a light comedy, you'd get something very much like a McKenzie novel: a serious, occasionally dark story told by an entertaining, often bemused narrator. Housewright just throws us into the story, too, filling us in on the background only after we've become convinced Rushmore might have lost his way. An excellent but strangely underappreciated series.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
McKenzie knows that his posing as an undercover agent for the ATF won't go smoothly when the authorities need his help with a gunrunning case. The resourceful detective figures it out in his tenth episode (after Curse of the Jade Lily). (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.