The Vulture
An Ike Schwartz Mystery

Name: The Vulture
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Frederick Ramsay
ISBN: 9781504681445

Author: Frederick Ramsay

Series: Ike Schwartz Mysteries #10

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 12/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural

Synopsis

Marry new technology to old-fashioned policing, and you’ve got something special.The car is found just outside Picketsville, Virginia, a smoking ruin of twisted metal and shattered glass. It takes only a glance to confirm that this is Ike Schwartz’s car. Ever since he left the CIA, the incorruptible Picketsville sheriff has made enemies at home and abroad. Now one has caught up with him with a bomb powerful enough to turn quiet Main Street into a smoking crater. Is this a cop killing―or domestic terrorism? The town plunges into mourning, and Ike’s wife Ruth, the president of the local college, puts on a brave face as the sheriff’s department organizes a manhunt, the likes of which Picketsville has never seen.Back at the CIA, Ike’s old colleague Charlie Garland joins the hunt, becoming fixated on a blurry videotape of the crime scene. Charlie’s elastic job description includes monitoring Ike’s life. Investigations―led by more than one player―fan around and out of Picketsville as far as a small town in Idaho where Martin Pangborn, head of the radical militia called the Fifty-First Star, runs his organization. If some banks and businesses are too big to fail, are some people too deeply connected or too wealthy to bring to justice? Is Martin Pangborn such a person? The Fifty-First Star’s tentacles run long and deep. But the Vulture is something no one, not even Martin Pangborn, is prepared for.

About Frederick Ramsay

Frederick Ramsay was born in Baltimore and received a doctorate from the University of Illinois. After a stint in the army, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is also an ordained Episcopal priest and an accomplished public speaker. In addition to the Ike Schwartz mysteries, the Botswana mysteries, and the Jerusalem mysteries, Ramsay is the author of scientific and general articles, tracts, and theses and coauthor of the Baltimore Declaration. He lives in Surprise, Arizona, with his wife and partner, Susan.

About Lloyd James

Lloyd James is a professional narrator, actor, and voiceover artist who has won numerous Earphones Awards for his narrations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by wade on May 10, 2016

If you buy the premise you will buy the book. There is a separatist group in Idaho at the New Star Ranch. (indicating a 5st star on the American flag) For some reason the leader of this movement finds it necessary to kill off a small town sheriff in Virginia and his college president wife. Maybe in......more

Goodreads review by Kate on January 20, 2018

Tenth in the Ike Schwartz mystery series, in which it first appears that the explosion of Ike's car may have killed him. With that shocking beginning, the reader is off on a foray to learn why he's been targeted, how he managed not to be in the car and who he suspects is not only after him, but also......more

Goodreads review by Gloria on January 02, 2017

In a Forward to this, the tenth Ike Schwartz mystery, the author recounts an odd occurrence that actually happened to him. It seems that he took his car into a shop for routine servicing, and when it was completed he was handed his keys back. Only they weren’t his keys, but they started his car anyw......more

Goodreads review by Robin on February 12, 2018

This has been a good series. Ike is a great character as are his friends and enemies. That said I could have done without Ruth. She's the only reason this book got a 3 1/2. With all of that I'm still sad this is the last in the series or so it seems since it's been 3 years since this one was written......more

Goodreads review by Jill on April 25, 2016

This is the tenth book in Ramsay’s series featuring Ike Schwartz, the sheriff of fictional Picketsville, Virginia, a small town some three hours southwest of Washington, D.C. Ike is a former CIA agent, and recently married to Ruth, the wise-cracking president of the town’s university. If you add a l......more

Quotes

“Series fans should enjoy the continuing banter between Ike and Ruth, as well as Ramsay’s scathing social commentary.” Publishers Weekly

“Ike’s tenth uses themes cut from current headlines to ramp up the excitement.” Kirkus Reviews