Jack is soon off on the crime beat and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming. The investigation leads him to a serial killer known as The Scarecrow, who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus. The rice field birds are too clever for scarecrows, They know what they love, milk in the grain. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. He is going to go out with a bang: a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honour - a Pulitzer Prize. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times, he's got 30 days left on the job. Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. A standalone crime thriller featuring Jack McEvoy, hero of The Poet, from the global bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and BRASS VERDICT.
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