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The blue edge of midnight : a Max Freeman novel, book 1 Cover Image

The blue edge of midnight : a Max Freeman novel, book 1 / Jonathan King.

ISBN: 0525946438
ISBN: 145325837X
ISBN: 9780525946434
ISBN: 9781453258378
Physical Description: 259 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Dutton, [2002]
Copyright: &copy;2002

King, Jonathon. (Author).

Summary:

Philadelphia cop Max Freeman thought he'd left the worst of his life behind when he killed a 12-year-old thief in self-defense and left the force. Abandoned by the SWAT team wife whom he'd given up without a struggle when he saw where her eye was roving, he's taken his disability payoff and retreated from the civilized world into a stilted shack at the edge of the Florida Everglades. But the Glades can be as nightmarish as any blasted cityscape, as Freeman finds when the canvas-wrapped package his canoe nudges in a quiet river pool turns out to be a dead child. Alissa Gainey is the fourth victim of the Midnight Murderer, who's kidnapped and killed three other children in ways that suggest both the wildest side of Florida wildlife and the losing battle environmentalists are fighting against powerful developers and well-heeled tourists. Freeman's grisly discovery brings him to the attention of the joint task force partnering county sheriff's investigators and state law enforcement.