King of Swords

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Synopsis

Miami, 1981. When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like another routine — if slightly bizarre — investigation. Until two things turn up: the victim's family, slaughtered; and a partly digested tarot card in the dead man's stomach. The King of Swords. An increasingly bloody trail leads Max and Joe first to a sinister fortune-teller and her scheming pimp son, then to the infamous Solomon Boukman. Few have ever met the most feared criminal in Miami, but rumours abound of a forked tongue, voodoo ceremonies and friends in very high places. Against a backdrop of black magic and police corruption, Max and Joe must distinguish the good guys from the bad - and track down some answers. What is the significance of the King of Swords? What makes those who have swallowed the card go on a killing spree just before they die? And can Max find out the truth about Solomon Boukman, before death's shadow reaches his own front door...?

Book details

Series:
A Max Mingus Thriller (Book 2)
Author:
Nick Stone
ISBN:
9780141889481
Related ISBNs:
9780141021072
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-07-28
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2008
Copyright by:
Nick Stone 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers