King Of Swords

Author: Nick Stone

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General Fields

  • : $9.95 AUD
  • : 9780718149239
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 44793
  • : August 2007
  • : --- length: - '23' width: - '15.2' units: - Centimeters
  • : United Kingdom
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Special Fields

  • : Nick Stone
  • : A\Max Mingus Thriller Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : Open market ed
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  • : 576
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Barcode 9780718149239
9780718149239

Description

Miami, 1981. When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like another routine - if slightly bizarre - investigation. Until two things turn up: the victim's family, slaughtered; and a partly digested tarot card in the dead man's stomach. The King of Swords. An increasingly bloody trail leads Max and Joe first to a sinister fortune-teller and her scheming pimp son, then to the infamous Solomon Boukman. Few have ever met the most feared criminal in Miami, but rumours abound of a forked tongue, voodoo ceremonies and friends in very high places. Against a backdrop of black magic and police corruption, Max and Joe must distinguish the good guys from the bad - and track down some answers. What is the significance of the King of Swords? What makes those who have swallowed the card go on a killing spree just before they die? And can Max find out the truth about Solomon Boukman, before death's shadow reaches his own front door . . .