The last witness
For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappear...
| Main Authors: | Griffin, W. E. B., Butterworth, William E. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
G.P. Putnam's Sons,
2013.
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| Series: |
Badge of honor ;
#11 |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia -- where Payne learns that's not all. It isn't just Russian girls who are vanishing. Teenage girls are being lured from foster homes. Police department sources are turning up dead. The lone living witness has gone into hiding, with everybody -- the Russians, the cartels, some of Philadelphia's most powerful politicians -- all looking for her. It's up to Payne to find her -- and hope he gets to her first. |
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| Physical Description: |
344 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780399162572 0399162577 |
| Author Notes: |
He wrote more than 200 books including the Brotherhood of War series, The Corps series, Badge of Honor series, Honor Bound series, Presidential Agent series, Men at War series, and A Clandestine Operations Novel series. Under his own name, he wrote 12 sequels in the 1970s to Richard Hooker's book M*A*S*H. His other pen names included Alex Baldwin, Webb Beech, and Walter E. Blake. He wrote over 20 books with his son William E. Butterworth IV. He received the Alabama Author's Award in 1982 from the Alabama Library Association. He died on February 12, 2019 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) |