Hunting Season: A Novel

by P. T. Deutermann

Overview

Edward Kreiss is a retired FBI agent—a manhunter whose specialty is making rogue operatives disappear. When Kreiss's daughter vanishes in the backwoods of rural West Virginia, and the FBI has no leads to follow, Kreiss follows his own—with a vengeance. Exercising the lethal maneuvers that made him the best "sweeper" in the business, Kreiss plunges back into action—this time as the dangerous loner he was once trained to kill.

Unknown to Kreiss, corrupt agency brass have their own reasons for keeping the kidnapping low-profile—and making the job of eliminating Kreiss high priority. Called in to take him down is a deadly female assassin with a killer instinct that surpasses that of her prey. Now, as hunter becomes hunted, Kreiss finds himself and his daughter trapped in an elaborate game of political scandal and personal revenge. And whatever secret has been buried by Kreiss's elusive enemies is sure to trigger open season on anyone who discovers it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250053756
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/17/2002
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

P.T. DEUTERMANN is the noted author of many novels based on his experiences as a senior staff officer in Washington and at sea as a Navy Captain, and later, Commodore. His WWII works include The Last Paladin and Pacific Glory, both of which won the W.Y. Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, Iwo, 26 Charlie, The Hooligans, The Nugget, Sentinels of Fire, The Commodore, Trial By Fire, and The Iceman. He lives with his wife of more than 50 years in North Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

[An] explosive tour de force...with a ripped-from-the-headlines plot.” —Publishers Weekly

“Deutermann's best novel to date.” —The Florida Times-Union

“Electrifying...One of the best by one of the best.” —Telegraph (Macon, GA)

From the Publisher

This seventh thriller from Deutermann, a retired Navy captain and arms-control specialist, begins like a steel bear trap with, indeed, two young men stepping into immovable bear traps by a stream, then nearly getting struck by lightning that batters a nearby tree, and who then face a thunderstorm and rising flash flood as they writhe in place while a five-foot wall of mud sweeps toward them. With them is Lynn Kreiss, daughter of Edwin Kreiss, a former top-secret sweeper from a US intelligence service—as in Deutermann's earlier novel Sweepers (1997) about the Navy's contract killers who clean up messes too hot to handle in-house. When Lynn is kidnapped (or disappeared by sweepers?), Edwin goes after her using all his smarts, only to find himself a target for sweepers. Deutermann has sold three novels to Hollywood already. They're blind if they pass on this one.

Kirkus Reviews