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Dead Watch

by John Sandford
Richard Ferrone
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport novels delivers “a page-turner with a new hero, [and a] breakneck pace" (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
“Former Sen. Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the political aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barb-wired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and missing his head. Democratic ‘research assistant’ (read: fixer) Jacob Winter, ex-Army Intelligence, wounded in Afghanistan, is called in by the Democratic president to unravel an extremely messy situation and shield his office from any hint of scandal. As this runaway train picks up speed, innocents are murdered, and the guilty come to Jesus…
 
"…Sandford is a master at creating believable, indelible characters like Winter…[He] is peerless when it comes to economical, taut plotting, most notably at building tension. Dead Watch is anything but politics as usual.”—San Antonio Express-News

  • Creators

  • Series

    Night Watch

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 16, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593286548
      • File size: 290436 KB
      • Duration: 10:05:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Richard Ferrone has performed almost all of John Sandford's books. Here he's cast as Jake Winter, special assistant to the president's chief of staff, who is investigating the gruesome death of an outspoken U.S. senator. Ferrone has several strengths, and you can tell he gets into his characters. He also knows how to ratchet up the excitement, which is especially important as Sandford starts all of his action sentences with verbs. Jake Winter is a welcome addition to the author's cast of characters. One hopes that Winter will join Sandford's other protagonists--Lucas Davenport, Kidd, and the "Night Crew"--and become a Sandford regular. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 13, 2006
      When Lincoln Bowe, a controversial Republican ex-senator, disappears at the start of this fast-paced thriller from bestseller Sandford (Broken Prey
      ), the White House puts Jacob Winter, a veteran political operative with "an uncanny ability to navigate the world of bureaucracy," on the case. Bowe vanished shortly after making a fiery speech denouncing a rival, Arlo Goodman, the governor of Virginia and a demagogue who heads a volunteer militia group known as the Watchmen. When Bowe's burnt and headless corpse turns up, Winter is under even more pressure to discover those behind his murder. Aided by the dead man's attractive and possibly duplicitous widow, Madison, the fixer follows a trail of corpses and deception that suggests the killing may have been a staged piece of theater intended to derail Goodman's ascent to the presidency. Readers interested in a quick diverting romp without much gravitas will enjoy this, but serious Beltway fiction junkies might prefer their political thrillers to be a little more plausible. 500,000 announced first printing.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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