The catch : a Joe Gunther novel
Gunther and his team investigate the murder of a cop who was gunned down during a routine traffic stop, and the investigation leads them into a struggle with a drug running operation.
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Gunther, Joe (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Police > Vermont > Fiction. Police > Crimes against > Fiction. Drug traffic > Fiction. |
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Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780312381912
- ISBN: 0312381913
- Physical Description viii, 274 pages
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008.
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The Catch
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Summary
The Catch
Joe Gunther, a Vermont cop for most of his adult life and now the head of the VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) gets the call that every law enforcement person hates and every friend and family member of a policeman fears -- a cop has been shot and killed. A deputy sheriff was shot to death during a routine traffic stop on a dark country road. From what can been seen on the cruiser's tape recorder of the killers, it is believed that they were a couple of Boston-based drug runners who had been stopped by the deputy on their way from Canada down to Boston.  Which is what brings Gunther and his team to the investigation - an attempt to shut down the major drug running operation. Specially that of one Alan Budney, disaffected son of a lobsterman, now a drug kingpin, who uses the closed, clannish lobster fishing community and his extended family in particular, to move drugs along the New England coast.  The most recent book - and last from Grand Central - Chat, has spent four week on the extended Booksense bestseller list and, as always, has been on the NEBA bestseller list since publication. He is the winner of the 2004 New England Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction.