From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series The triple-crown winner of mystery�s most prestigious awards�the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus�Rick Riordan blasted onto the crime scene with one of its freshest and most intriguing protagonists, Tres Navarre. In Mission Road, Navarre returns in a wrenching crime drama in which he must revisit the sins of the past to catch a killer about to get away with murder�again. San Antonio private investigator Tres Navarre is used to working on the edge�that razor-sharp line between legal and life sentence. But this time he�s stepped straight into a no-man�s-land. When an old friend appears at his door spattered with blood and wanted for attempted homicide, Tres doesn�t have to think twice about where his loyalty lies�or the consequences. Ralph Arguello is a criminal who put the street life behind him when he married SAPD detective Ana DeLeon. Now Ana�s been gunned down and her fellow cops don�t need to look far to find a prime suspect. For Ana recently reopened the most infamous cold case in SAPD history�the unsolved murder on notorious Mission Road eighteen years before that threw the San Antonio underworld into bloody chaos. Ana was about to bring charges against the suspected killer: her husband, Ralph Arguello.Tres is sure that Ralph didn�t do it�and that he didn�t shoot his wife. But with the police and the Mafia both out for revenge, there�s no one to turn to for help. Now, armed and dangerous, the targets of a citywide manhunt, Tres and Ralph have just hours to discover what really happened on Mission Road almost two decades ago. To find the truth, they must set a collision course with the past�and with a secret that will tear their lives apart. From the Hardcover edition.
(less)From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series The triple-crown winner of mystery�s most prestigious awards�the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus�Rick Riordan blasted onto the crime scene
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