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Title details for Midnight Rambler by James Swain - Available

Midnight Rambler

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by James Swain
Peter Jay Fernandez
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Years ago, South Florida cop Jack Carpenter beat up a murder suspect named Simon Skell, a dangerous predator with a penchant for playing the Rolling Stones' "Midnight Rambler" as he tortured young women. When Jack lost his temper, he lost his job and his marriage, too; so as Skell's early release from prison draws near, the tarnished hero—now a specialist in cases of missing children—sees an opportunity to make things right.

Scrambling to gather more evidence, Jack uncovers a shocking criminal conspiracy: a group of four men who kidnap and kill young women on the margins of society. Teaming up with an FBI agent, Jack must outwit and outrun his enemies.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Jack Carpenter

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 1, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792751311
      • File size: 280996 KB
      • Duration: 09:45:24

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      If you listen to this book at night, you'll have every light in the house burning. Detective Jack Carpenter lost his wife and his job with the Miami Police as a result of losing his temper while capturing the sadistic serial killer Simon Skell, dubbed "the Midnight Rambler." A fan of the Rolling Stones, Skell would play "Midnight Rambler" as he tortured and killed his victims. Carpenter's world-weary tone is expertly rendered by Peter Jay Fernandez. The steamy South Florida setting is perfect for the mélange of well-crafted characters, colorful accents, and pulse-quickening plot twists. Don't say you weren't warned. R.O. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 6, 2007
      Swain, author of the gambling crime series starring Tony Valentine (Grift Sense
      , etc.), avoids many of the clichés 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.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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