Andy Carpenter’s accountant, Sam Willis, is stunned to receive a phone call out of the blue from Barry Price, a high school friend he hasn’t spoken to in years, pleading for help with something too frightening to discuss on the phone. Barry needs Sam’s financial acumen and lawyer Andy Carpenter’s legal expertise and he needs them immediately. But when Sam almost runs over an injured dog lying in … lying in the road on the way to Barry’s house, he can’t drive off without waiting for help to arrive. By the time Sam makes it, Barry’s already taken off on a private airplane headed who-knows-where.
Assuming their help is no longer needed, Sam and Andy turn their full attention to helping the dog Sam found recover from his injuries. Then they learn that Barry’s plane has crashed, and they come to the terrifying realization that Sam was also supposed to have been killed on that plane. Barry was in far more serious trouble than either of them knew, and for Sam and Andy, the trouble is only beginning.
Unleashed, David Rosenfelt’s next Andy Carpenter mystery, is a thrilling read, full of Rosenfelt’s trademark clever plotting, humor, and engaging prose.
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law-enforcement, FBI, family-dynamics, framed, friendship, lawyers, contract-killer, conspiracy, murder, murder-investigation, situational-humor, verbal-humor, snark-fest, dogs, greed, senior-citizens, private-investigators, ex-cop, fast-pace, computer-nerd*****
Another intriguing story with a fairly high body count and some help from the Feds. …
Andy Carpenter is back at it again in this witty, entertaining addition to the series. Andy’s account, Sam Willis, gets a blast from the past which lands him in a heap of trouble when a high school friend reaches out to him for help. After Andy helps Sam find and rescue an injured dog, aptly named Crash, he must next attempt to rescue Sam from a …
All his books are very good!
This book, like One Dog Night and Leader Of The Pack, the previous two in the series suffers from Case Creep – the literary equivalent of the military’s Mission Creep – with a local murder leading to exposing a crime wave that will play out across the country.
Instead of the story focusing on Andy defending someone accused of a serious crime, he …