Deadline (A Virgil Flowers Novel)

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The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Timesbestselling series. In Southeast Minnesota down on the Mississippi a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed due to personnel issues. Issues is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile not far away Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping which seems to be turning into something much bigger and ugliera team of dognappers supplying medical labswhen he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been foundand the victim is a local reporter. . . .