The Dark Circle
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Jake Cantrell tried to put his past behind him and settle down after suffering an unjust disgrace as an army officer. He works as a campus security officer at a small college in upstate New York. But things aren’t so placid in his leafy new environs. A mass opioid crisis threatens to devastate the campus. When two football players on the new drug attack Jake with bats, Jake is fired for the excessive force he has to use to subdue them.
Newly unemployed, Jake is retained by Lauren Kennsiton, the editor of the Groton Journal, to find missing college student Deborah Chapman, a gifted young jazz vocalist who has performed at Carnegie Hall.
Along with Bug, the eighteen-year-old wolf hound he saved in Afghanistan, Jake sets out on the search. Battling street gangs, nefarious secrets, and an enigmatic group called the Knights, Jake is set for a brutal showdown that could mean Deborah's rescue—or Jake's demise.
Fans of Robert J. Mrazek's award-winning thrillers are in for a non-stop ride into the abyss with the second installment in his critically acclaimed series.
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Robert J. Mrazek. (2022). The Dark Circle. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.
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Jake Cantrell tried to put his past behind him and settle down after suffering an unjust disgrace as an army officer. He works as a campus security officer at a small college in upstate New York. But things aren’t so placid in his leafy new environs. A mass opioid crisis threatens to devastate the campus. When two football players on the new drug attack Jake with bats, Jake is fired for the excessive force he has to use to subdue them.
Newly unemployed, Jake is retained by Lauren Kennsiton, the editor of the Groton Journal, to find missing college student Deborah Chapman, a gifted young jazz vocalist who has performed at Carnegie Hall.
Along with Bug, the eighteen-year-old wolf hound he saved in Afghanistan, Jake sets out on the search. Battling street gangs, nefarious secrets, and an enigmatic group called the Knights, Jake is set for a brutal showdown that could mean Deborah's rescue—or Jake's demise.
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A gritty shamus tracks a sex trafficking ring in upstate New York. After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, righteous Jake Cantrell, last seen taking down a blackmailer while working as a security officer at St. Andrews College, loses this gig when he defends himself against an assault by two student athletes high on opioids. Investigative journalist Lauren Kenniston, who witnessed his campus attack, asks Jake to find missing student Deborah Chapman, an enormously talented aspiring jazz singer. Beginning with a missing person's report filed by Deborah's roommate, Mariana, Jake follows a twisty maze that leads from Deborah's distraught mother to a high-powered agent poised to make Deborah a star to a casino on the land of the Mattaway Tribe. Could the murder of Deborah's father four years ago be connected to her disappearance? Jake ultimately finds her in a drugged stupor in Binghamton, the captive of Rasputin, a pimp with a posse of gangbangers. Jake's inherent rectitude and his undeniable chemistry with Lauren compel him to pursue the case further while Deborah clings to life in the hospital. Mrazek's rhythmic, muscular prose and vivid character portraits make every chapter land like a short story. The complex road to the solution links the opioid crisis plaguing St. Andrews, murdered orphan Cheryl Larsen, and ultrahandsome contract killer George Washington. Many answers are found at the Stoneberry, the aforementioned casino. A brisk and bracing second case that slakes the thirst for a classic gumshoe.COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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At the start of Mrazek’s proficient sequel to 2017’s Dead Man’s Bridge, unjustly disgraced former army officer Jake Cantrell, a security officer at St. Andrews College in upstate New York, is assaulted by two baseball bat–wielding football players after a drug- and alcohol-fueled campus celebration gets out of control. The football players were apparently under the influence of an incredibly addictive new opioid that induces drastic mood swings and has been responsible for numerous overdoses on campus. When Cantrell’s boss suspends him without pay for using excessive force, he resigns from his job. Soon afterward, Cantrell is contacted by Lauren Kenniston, a journalist investigating people believed to be involved with opioid trafficking in the area. She hires Cantrell to find Deborah Chapman, a missing St. Andrews student with a bright future as a jazz vocalist. Their search for Deborah leads them deep into an underground economy centered on the Knights, a cultlike group involved in murder and sex trafficking. Mrazek’s briskly paced mystery offers plenty of twists. Newcomers and series fans alike will be satisfied. Agent: David Halpern, Robbins Office.
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Newly unemployed, Jake is retained by Lauren Kennsiton, the editor of the Groton Journal, to find missing college student Deborah Chapman, a gifted young jazz vocalist who has performed at Carnegie Hall.
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