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The Big Finish: Thorn Mysteries Series, Book 11
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Hall, James W.
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Thorn novels volume 14.
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St. Martin's Publishing Group 2014
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A year ago Thorn's son, Flynn Moss, disappeared into the eco-underground, his only contact with Thorn a series of postcards chronicling his exploits. But a postcard arrives unlike the others, a call for help, Thorn jumps into action, setting off for North Carolina. But before Thorn arrives, he's intercepted by a federal agent who informs him he's too late—Flynn had been acting as an informant for the FBI, and when his traitorous acts were discovered, he was summarily executed.
The agent proposes a scheme to catch Flynn's killer using Thorn as bait. Thorn, full of rage, accepts the job if only to get his hands on his son's killer. The mission takes him to a small town where the gang is holed up, planning an attack on a hog farming operation that has been polluting local rivers and spreading illness through the area.
Little by little Thorn discovers that nothing he's been told is true, and the trap they're setting isn't for Flynn's killer, but for his partner, a woman who proves more daring and dangerous than any Thorn's ever met. She's on her own crusade of vengeance, and she and Thorn make an uneasy alliance. With her help Thorn uncovers a conspiracy that stretches far beyond this small Carolina town.

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James W. Hall. (2014). The Big Finish: Thorn Mysteries Series, Book 11. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

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The agent proposes a scheme to catch Flynn's killer using Thorn as bait. Thorn, full of rage, accepts the job if only to get his hands on his son's killer. The mission takes him to a small town where the gang is holed up, planning an attack on a hog farming operation that has been polluting local rivers and spreading illness through the area.
Little by little Thorn discovers that nothing he's been told is true, and the trap they're setting isn't for Flynn's killer, but for his partner, a woman who proves more daring and dangerous than any Thorn's ever met. She's on her own crusade of vengeance, and she and Thorn make an uneasy alliance. With her help Thorn uncovers a conspiracy that stretches far beyond this small Carolina town.

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        In last year's Going Dark, series hero Thorn's son Flynn disappeared into a radical ecomovement group. Now, rushing to find him after a call for help via postcard, Thorn is told that Flynn had been acting as an informant for the FBI and was executed when his undercover activities were discovered. But the truth may prove to be pretty thorny. From a Shamus and Edgar Award-winning author.

        Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        In 2013's Going Dark, South Florida recluse Thorn discovered he had an adult son, Flynn, an actor-turned-ecowarrior. In this follow-up, Thorn gets a postcard ostensibly from Flynn pleading for help. He promptly heads to a huge North Carolina hog farm where several of Flynn's colleagues have been murdered and from where he is missing, probably wounded. Thorn's search is quickly complicated by a crooked FBI agent, a murderous ex-con with an unusual ability to track by smell, and the vicious owners of the farm, who are intent on stopping any interference. VERDICT As in Edgar Award winner Hall's 13 previous series titles, Thorn is a passionate individualist with empathy for the victims of social and racial injustice. Aided here by poor whites, a downtrodden black community, and some illegal weapons, he delivers justice on his own terms. Hall's trademark mix of strikingly drawn characters caught in ever more perilous situations will keep his many fans turning the pages. [See Prepub Alert, 6/16/14.]--Roland Person, formerly with Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale

        Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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The agent proposes a scheme to catch Flynn's killer using Thorn as bait. Thorn, full of rage, accepts the job if only to get his hands on his son's killer. The mission takes him to a small town where the gang is holed up, planning an attack on a hog farming operation that has been polluting local rivers and spreading illness through the area.
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