Secret Undertaking
โ Scribed by Clayton, Barry;De Castrique, Mark
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press, Inc.
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- North Carolina,North Carolina.
- ISBN
- 1464210365
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โฆ Synopsis
Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's annual Apple Festival Parade, what could go wrong? With Archie involved - anything!
First, the Grand Marshal, NC Secretary of Agriculture Graham James, is attacked by a gunman and Barry's Uncle Wayne is critically wounded in the melee. The assailant is killed. Then, when the body of a convenience store owner is discovered less than an hour later with the gunman's food stamp card in his wallet, the case escalates. Two men dead. What is the connection?
Barry and Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins swiftly learn their small town offers no protection against big-time crime. The body count rises as the scope of their homicide investigation crosses into the realm of the U.S. Marshals and their secretive Witness Protection Program. To penetrate...
โฆ Subjects
Witnesses -- Protection -- Fiction
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