This is a book by Thomas Perry, a writer that I really enjoy. This book while had some good parts, just didn't seem up to the writer's normal good standards. It seems to me that it was a book started years ago and set aside only to be re-worked and published recently. If the book was set in the 1990s, it would make more sense but in today's internet world the story didn't work for me. A real estate guy is hired to buy up whole towns--small towns, along a river in IN. He hires a bunch of thugs to go into the towns to threaten and force protection rackets where eventually businesses & homeowners would have to sell a cut rate deals. A IL state attorney hears something going on & hires an ex-husband private eye to investigate and he immediately gets caught up in this. Several people murdered including a police officer. This is where I don't believe the story--in the internet age this would be a big enough story that the state police would investigate and people would talk. Instead this PI eventually gets the good people of the town to uprise and are able to arrest the thugs. This was all happening because a big corporate group found out this area has rare earth metals and wanted to buy the land up cheap to start mining. Some good parts to the book but just seemed like it was forced together.
There are 4 WL for this book on PBS so I will post at some point & send off. I have had a bunch of requests in the last couple weeks and have mailed off a bunch of books so back to having enough credits for now.
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