Book description
Epic new horror from a new star in the genre! Samuel 'Sailor' Doyle has
transferred from Vice to Homicide in the Virginia State Police. He has a
mistress, an alcohol problem, a prescription drug dependency, and a
burgeoning self-loathing that alienates his wife and family. On Friday 3
July, the rookie investigator is assigned to a double homicide on a
rural farm some 15 miles outside Richmond. One of the victims has been
interred in a makeshift tomb, while the other is stuck half-in, half-out
of a hope chest overflowing with cat litter. And the farm is covered
with dead bodies: dozens of cats, sheep, goats, cows, and one dead
horse. The mentally handicapped daughter of the victims, Carl and Claire
Bruckner, is missing. Doyle soon discovers that Bruckner was a Marine
captain who lost his leg in Vietnam thanks to the incompetence of his
commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lake - now retired General
Robert Lake, and Republican Party presidential hopeful, who will be
speaking in Richmond on July fourth - the following evening. What Doyle
fails to realise as he follows the various clues is that wherever he
goes, he is spreading disease - and not just any disease, but Yersinia
pestis. The plague. Is the dead Marine planning revenge, even from
beyond the grave?
