### From Publishers Weekly The past collides explosively with the present in Edgar-winner Riordan's relatively weak sixth Tres Navarre novel (after 2004's *Southtown*) when Navarre's boyhood friend, reformed criminal Ralph Arguello, appears on his doorstep wearing a blood-soaked *guayabera* barely
Mission Road
β Scribed by Riordan, Rick
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Bantam Books
- Year
- 2005;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series The triple-crown winner of mystery's most prestigious awards'the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus'Rick Riordan blasted onto the crime scene with one of its freshest and most intriguing protagonists, Tres Navarre. In Mission Road, Navarre returns in a wrenching crime drama in which he must revisit the sins of the past to catch a killer about to get away with murderagain. San Antonio private investigator Tres Navarre is used to working on the edge'that razor-sharp line between legal and life sentence. But this time he's stepped straight into a no-man's-land. When an old friend appears at his door spattered with blood and wanted for attempted homicide, Tres doesn't have to think twice about where his loyalty lies'or the consequences. Ralph Arguello is a criminal who put the street life behind him when he married SAPD detective Ana DeLeon. Now Ana's been gunned down and her fellow cops don't need to look far to find a prime suspect. For Ana recently reopened the most infamous cold case in SAPD history'the unsolved murder on notorious Mission Road eighteen years before that threw the San Antonio underworld into bloody chaos. Ana was about to bring charges against the suspected killer: her husband, Ralph Arguello. Tres is sure that Ralph didn't do it'and that he didn't shoot his wife. But with the police and the Mafia both out for revenge, there's no one to turn to for help. Now, armed and dangerous, the targets of a citywide manhunt, Tres and Ralph have just hours to discover what really happened on Mission Road almost two decades ago. To find the truth, they must set a collision course with the past'and with a secret that will tear their lives apart. From the Hardcover edition.
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### From Publishers Weekly The past collides explosively with the present in Edgar-winner Riordan's relatively weak sixth Tres Navarre novel (after 2004's *Southtown*) when Navarre's boyhood friend, reformed criminal Ralph Arguello, appears on his doorstep wearing a blood-soaked\_ guayabera\_ barel
**From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series** The triple-crown winner of mysterys most prestigious awardsthe Edgar, the Anthony, and the ShamusRick Riordan blasted onto the crime scene with one of its freshest and most intriguing protagonists,
### From Publishers Weekly The past collides explosively with the present in Edgar-winner Riordan's relatively weak sixth Tres Navarre novel (after 2004's *Southtown*) when Navarre's boyhood friend, reformed criminal Ralph Arguello, appears on his doorstep wearing a blood-soaked\_ guayabera\_ barel
**From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series** The triple-crown winner of mystery's most prestigious awards--the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus--Rick Riordan blasted onto the crime scene with one of its freshest and most intriguing protago