City of Whispering Stone

✍ Scribed by Chesbro, George C

• Book ID: 109584522
• Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Series: Mongo 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781504046527

✦ Synopsis

A circus-performer-turned-PI takes on "murder and intrigue from New York to Iran" in this "well done, suspenseful" unconventional mystery (Newsday).

With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson—better known as "Mongo the Magnificent"—has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf.

When his former big-top boss asks him to find a missing Iranian strongman, Mongo is plunged into a three-ring circus of murder, espionage, and international intrigue. And when Mongo's own brother—police officer Garth Frederickson—gets involved, the detective must fly to Iran, a country on the brink of a revolution. Now he's searching for two missing men, from Tehran to the ancient city of Persepolis, playing a game of a cat-and-mouse with forces far beyond his control. And unlike his days as an...