ESCAPE CLAUSE

JOHN SANDFORD

This is another wonderfully entertaining, absorbing, and compelling police procedural. Virgil Flowers is the unorthodox Minnesota based Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent who is always involved in weird and dangerous crimes.

This time out Flowers is tasked to find a pair of rare and endangered tigers that have been stolen from the Twin Cities Zoo. Who would commit this crime and of equal import, why? Flowers has many tools at his disposal least of all his service weapon which he rarely uses largely because he is a terrible shot. Fortunately for him and for us, he is a superb investigator who relies on his experience, acumen, and network of associates, witnesses, and criminals.

Beside the missing tigers, Flowers must take care of a violent man who has beat up his girlfriend’s sister who is researching illegal employment practices at a local pickle factory. Add this to the intriguing tiger tale and you have another fascinating, gripping, and compulsively readable mystery written by Mr. Sandford, one of the absolute best in the field.