The Numbers

The electrifying prequel and perfect introduction to the bestselling and fan-favorite Thomas Prescott series, with over 1.3 million downloads and 10,000+ five-star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads!

After getting canned from the Seattle PD, brilliant, wisecracking Thomas Prescott follows his sister Lacy to Philadelphia, where she swims on the Drexel University team. While Thomas's slapstick antics mask a keen analytic mind, it's his nose for trouble that leads him again and again into dicey situations. The ex-homicide detective is not long in Philly before getting caught up in two high-powered criminal cases.

Thomas stumbles into a crime scene amid the Occupy Philadelphia protests. Activist Brooke Wexley has been strangled within sight of city hall. While demonstrating against economic inequality, the college student hid her own family's wealthy background. The über-rich Wexleys have many dark secrets-one of which may have led to Brooke's violent death.

Thomas is also called to join an emergency multiagency task force on the trail of a prolific serial killer who leaves gruesome calling cards: a three-digit number carved on each of his many victims. It's when Thomas realizes the murders are linked to the Numbers-the old illegal street lottery-that his investigation shifts into high gear. The trail jumps back to the past before rushing back to the present like a tsunami of fire, bent on revenge.

Amid all this, Lacy has a health scare, and Thomas's priorities shift. Encountering gambling church ladies, felonious businessmen, and murderous mobsters-with an investigation hampered by a competitive colleague and Lacy's narcoleptic pug-Thomas must summon all his considerable powers to root out the guilty and dangerous while caring for his adored sister.

Reader's Note: This book takes place when Thomas Prescott is thirty years old (three years before the events of Unforeseen). If you are new to the Thomas Prescott series, this is the perfect place to start!

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The Numbers

The electrifying prequel and perfect introduction to the bestselling and fan-favorite Thomas Prescott series, with over 1.3 million downloads and 10,000+ five-star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads!

After getting canned from the Seattle PD, brilliant, wisecracking Thomas Prescott follows his sister Lacy to Philadelphia, where she swims on the Drexel University team. While Thomas's slapstick antics mask a keen analytic mind, it's his nose for trouble that leads him again and again into dicey situations. The ex-homicide detective is not long in Philly before getting caught up in two high-powered criminal cases.

Thomas stumbles into a crime scene amid the Occupy Philadelphia protests. Activist Brooke Wexley has been strangled within sight of city hall. While demonstrating against economic inequality, the college student hid her own family's wealthy background. The über-rich Wexleys have many dark secrets-one of which may have led to Brooke's violent death.

Thomas is also called to join an emergency multiagency task force on the trail of a prolific serial killer who leaves gruesome calling cards: a three-digit number carved on each of his many victims. It's when Thomas realizes the murders are linked to the Numbers-the old illegal street lottery-that his investigation shifts into high gear. The trail jumps back to the past before rushing back to the present like a tsunami of fire, bent on revenge.

Amid all this, Lacy has a health scare, and Thomas's priorities shift. Encountering gambling church ladies, felonious businessmen, and murderous mobsters-with an investigation hampered by a competitive colleague and Lacy's narcoleptic pug-Thomas must summon all his considerable powers to root out the guilty and dangerous while caring for his adored sister.

Reader's Note: This book takes place when Thomas Prescott is thirty years old (three years before the events of Unforeseen). If you are new to the Thomas Prescott series, this is the perfect place to start!

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The Numbers

The Numbers

by Nick Pirog

Narrated by Johnny Heller

Unabridged — 9 hours, 32 minutes

The Numbers

The Numbers

by Nick Pirog

Narrated by Johnny Heller

Unabridged — 9 hours, 32 minutes

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The electrifying prequel and perfect introduction to the bestselling and fan-favorite Thomas Prescott series, with over 1.3 million downloads and 10,000+ five-star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads!

After getting canned from the Seattle PD, brilliant, wisecracking Thomas Prescott follows his sister Lacy to Philadelphia, where she swims on the Drexel University team. While Thomas's slapstick antics mask a keen analytic mind, it's his nose for trouble that leads him again and again into dicey situations. The ex-homicide detective is not long in Philly before getting caught up in two high-powered criminal cases.

Thomas stumbles into a crime scene amid the Occupy Philadelphia protests. Activist Brooke Wexley has been strangled within sight of city hall. While demonstrating against economic inequality, the college student hid her own family's wealthy background. The über-rich Wexleys have many dark secrets-one of which may have led to Brooke's violent death.

Thomas is also called to join an emergency multiagency task force on the trail of a prolific serial killer who leaves gruesome calling cards: a three-digit number carved on each of his many victims. It's when Thomas realizes the murders are linked to the Numbers-the old illegal street lottery-that his investigation shifts into high gear. The trail jumps back to the past before rushing back to the present like a tsunami of fire, bent on revenge.

Amid all this, Lacy has a health scare, and Thomas's priorities shift. Encountering gambling church ladies, felonious businessmen, and murderous mobsters-with an investigation hampered by a competitive colleague and Lacy's narcoleptic pug-Thomas must summon all his considerable powers to root out the guilty and dangerous while caring for his adored sister.

Reader's Note: This book takes place when Thomas Prescott is thirty years old (three years before the events of Unforeseen). If you are new to the Thomas Prescott series, this is the perfect place to start!


Editorial Reviews

New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Sprawling, visceral, filled with twists and carefully placed humor—Nick Pirog consistently pens some of the best modern crime fiction. With compelling characters and adventurous plots, once you pick up one of his books, you won’t easily put it down.”

New York Times bestselling author and two-time Edg Kathleen Kent

A multilayered, lightning-fast crime mystery which sprints breathlessly through the mean streets of Philadelphia, past and present. Filled with colorful and dangerous characters, the book’s main protagonist, Thomas Prescott, plays by his own rules: relentless when solving violent crimes, steadfast in his love for family, and unwavering in speaking the truth, even if it means losing everything.”

New York Times bestselling author and a two-time E Kathleen Kent

A multilayered, lightning-fast crime mystery which sprints breathlessly through the mean streets of Philadelphia, past and present. Filled with colorful and dangerous characters, the book’s main protagonist, Thomas Prescott, plays by his own rules: relentless when solving violent crimes, steadfast in his love for family, and unwavering in speaking the truth, even if it means losing everything.”

Kirkus Reviews

2023-01-12
A clever, funny prequel to the popular Thomas Prescott series, set in 2011.

Independently wealthy Prescott is a brilliant investigator. When his maverick streak and quirky sense of humor get him bounced from the Seattle Police Department, he follows his beloved sister, Lacy, to Philadelphia, where she swims for Drexel and he consults with the city police. While hanging around an Occupy Wall Street demonstration, he finds Brooke Wexley, whose father is the richest man in town, dead in her tent, and his police connections set him on the trail of her killer. Along the way, he gets a call asking for help in a serial killer case. A string of dead men all have three-digit numbers carved in their foreheads. The members of the joint task force investigating the crimes think they’re area codes, but Prescott disagrees. Too much of a loose cannon for the FBI, he investigates on his own and stumbles on stories about the Numbers Racket and dream books that assign three-digit numbers to dreams so people can use them to place bets. A visit to a fellow investigator’s mother tells him all he wants to know about the Numbers and territorial fights over who runs them. Although Prescott isn't cleared to investigate, his theory proves correct, and the dream books lead him to Boston, where digging up a grave discloses still more bodies with numbers on their foreheads. After Prescott’s saved from arrest for grave-robbing by FBI Special Agent Wade Gleason, the discovery gets them appointed to the joint task force even as he continues to work the Wexley case, often posing as a fun-loving frat boy.

A nail-biting thriller larded with humor and social commentary.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940175854917
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date: 02/28/2023
Series: The Thomas Prescott Series
Edition description: Unabridged
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