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Edwin Kreiss is a former FBI agent whose discovery of a Chinese espionage ring made him a lot of enemies and resulted in his early retirement. Now his daughter is missing, and nobody, least of all a junior G-woman named Janet Carter, is going to keep him from finding her. Browbeating the one clue to her disappearance out of a terrified college student, Kreiss follows his daughter's trail to a deactivated federal arsenal in southwestern Virginia, where a fanatic whose son was immolated at Waco is cooking up a plan to blow the ATF to bits. Kreiss is uniquely qualified to play his role as hunter-in-chief. He's been trained as a "sweeper," a job title that refers to the cleanup of rogue agents and other enemies of the state, and he took a few high-tech search-and-destroy goodies with him when he was prematurely put out to pasture by his former employers. Now another sweeper wants to put him out of action, and Janet Carter's getting conflicting signals from her own superiors about just how much cooperation they're willing to give Kreiss as he sets out to rescue his daughter--and, incidentally, redeem his own troubled past. P.T. Deutermann is a skillful writer who knows how to tell a story. This briskly paced thriller almost turns the pages by itself. Carter, the ostensible heroine of the novel, never quite extinguishes her ambivalence about either Kreiss or the agency she serves, an attempt at multidimensionality of character that's more confusing than revealing. The ending hints at a continued relationship between them, but it's Kreiss, rather than Carter, who engages the reader's attention and whose future we really care about. --Jane AdamsRead More

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    When three college students hiking in the Appalachians mysteriously vanish, the FBI is called in to investigate.Finding no immediate leads and no indications of a criminal act, the authorities at the Bureau put the case on the back burner.But the father of one of the missing-Edwin Kriess-isn't willing to just let it drop.Kriess is a retired FBI agent, who was also a former member of an elite CIA task force expertly trained in the art of hunting down and retrieving rogue agents.His career burned down after a mission to uncover a Chinese espionage plot resulted in a blood-bath involving civilians. Kriess was quietly sacrificed to extinguish the scandal, and has since lived in semi-exile down in southwestern Virginia.Now he's back in action - if very unofficially - and will do anything in his power to find his daughter.Relying on the specialized tactics and lethal maneuvers from his man-hunting past as an Agency "sweeper," he mounts his own search and investigation.Crossing paths with the Bureau and other government agencies, Kriess becomes targeted for retrieval by one of his own kind.As he tracks through a deadly maze of political scandal, personal revenge, and high-level corruption, Kriess discovers that it's hunting season-on himself, his family, and, ultimately, the United States government.Hunting Season is P. T. Deutermann at the top of his game.Powerful and shocking, filled with exciting scenes and intense action, this brilliantly written novel follows the progress of a man on a mission: to find his daughter and redeem his past.AUTHORBIO: P. T. Deutermann spent twenty-six years in government service before retiring to begin his writing career. He is the author of six previous novels.He lives with his wife in Georgia on their family farm.

  • 031226979X
  • 9780312269791
  • Peter T. Deutermann
  • 1 February 2001
  • St. Martin's Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 352
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