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Title details for The Saint of Wolves and Butchers by Alex Grecian - Available

The Saint of Wolves and Butchers

by Alex Grecian
January LaVoy
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From the bestselling author of The Yard and Red Rabbit comes a chilling contemporary thriller about an enigmatic hunter on the trail of a Nazi who has secretly continued his devilish work here in America.
Travis Roan and his dog, Bear, are hunters: They travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp administrator who snuck into the U.S. under the name Rudy Goodman in the 1950s and has at last been identified. Travis quickly learns that Goodman has powerful friends who will go to any length to protect the Nazi; what he doesn't know is that Goodman has furtively continued his diabolical work, amassing a congregation of followers who believe he possesses Godlike powers. Caught between these men is Kansas State Trooper Skottie Foster, an African American woman and a good cop who must find a way to keep peace in her district—until she realizes the struggle between Roan and Bormann will put her and her family in grave peril.

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  • Release date

    April 17, 2018

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780525525325
      • File size: 320319 KB
      • Duration: 11:07:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 29, 2018
      This predictable thriller from Grecian (the Murder Squad series) focuses on the hunt for a Nazi concentration camp commander. In 1951, wanted war criminal Rudolph Bormann succeeds in making his way from South America to rural Kansas, where he begins a new life as Rudy Goodman. In the present, Travis Roan, the head of a family foundation devoted to bringing war criminals to justice, comes to Kansas from L.A. after a report that the German was recognized by Ruth Elder, a concentration camp survivor. When Travis arrives at Ruth’s home, the woman’s grown daughter tells him that her mother has recently died. Undeterred, Travis presses on, aided by his canine companion, Bear, a massive animal with the ability to understand Esperanto. Travis gets another unlikely ally in the person of Kansas Highway Patrol trooper Skottie Foster, a single mother who risks her job to help him. None of the characters lingers in the memory, and the early appearance of Skottie’s precocious daughter, who instantly bonds with Bear, presages a climax that veteran genre readers will find unsurprising. Author tour. Agent: Seth Fishman, Gernert Company.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this is a fast-paced story, elderly Nazis have settled in a rural Kansas county, where they continue to commit race-based atrocities. This seemingly implausible plot is made credible through the imaginative verisimilitude instilled by its author and through the assured, matter-of-fact tone of January LaVoy's narration. Listeners can only conclude the danger is real and cheer on the Nazi hunter who comes to Kansas with his dog, Bear, to see that justice prevails. When the mixed-race daughter of the lead investigator is kidnaped, we can hear the tension in LaVoy's voice. She also brings to life a number of secondary characters--some likable, some less so--delivering this action-packed story with clarity and conviction. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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