From Publishers Weekly
Swain, author of the gambling crime series starring Tony Valentine (Grift Sense , etc.), avoids many of the clichรฉs of the antisocial ex-cop novel in this chilling stand-alone. A specialist in finding missing children, former cop Jack Carpenter was fired from the force for assaulting a prisoner. Broke after a civil lawsuit and estranged from his wife and daughter, he's living in a seedy beachside apartment north of Miami, Fla., with his dog. Then Simon Skell (aka the Midnight Rambler), whom Carpenter helped convict for murdering prostitutes, is released from prison on a technicality. Determined to prove Skell guilty, Carpenter is frozen out by the cop on the case, but help comes from an FBI agent whose daughter vanished years earlier. The tension rises as the investigation widens far beyond Skell. Well-defined characters and intricately woven subplots, one involving a nail-biting scene at Disney World, make this a page-turner. 12-city author tour. (Oct.)
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Review
Praise for James Swain and Midnight Rambler
โMidnight Rambler is a heavy hitter, fast and spare. Travis McGee meets Philip Marlow.โ
โRandy Wayne White, author of Hunterโs Moon
โMoves like a bullet train on overdrive . . . I tore through this one without putting on the brakes. I guarantee you will, too!โ
โMichael Connelly
โMidnight Rambler kept me up all night long, and Jack Carpenter is as appealing a hero as Iโve ever met. The only problem with Swainโs riveting thrillers is they end.โ
โTess Gerritsen, author of The Bone Garden
โSwain is one terrific writer.โ
โThe Wall Street Journal
From the Hardcover edition.