Three convicts on the run with an arsenal of weaponry and only one rogue cop can stop them. Lamar Pye has escaped from Oklahoma State Penitentiary, accompanied by his idiot cousin and a vicious, but cowardly artist. To have stayed in prison was certain death, but his chances on the outside are not much greater: his excesses know no bounds - one killing follows another. But one murder brings his nemesis upon him: Bud Pewtie of the Highway of the Highway Patrol loses his partner in a blood-soaked shoot-out with Lamar, and ...
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Three convicts on the run with an arsenal of weaponry and only one rogue cop can stop them. Lamar Pye has escaped from Oklahoma State Penitentiary, accompanied by his idiot cousin and a vicious, but cowardly artist. To have stayed in prison was certain death, but his chances on the outside are not much greater: his excesses know no bounds - one killing follows another. But one murder brings his nemesis upon him: Bud Pewtie of the Highway of the Highway Patrol loses his partner in a blood-soaked shoot-out with Lamar, and from that moment on, nothing will stop him from getting even.
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A little different than other Hunter books (and I have some problem with his description of a triology), but just a top notch read. One of those you wish you could grab everytime.
RandyLarkin
Jan 8, 2010
"...Get your hands dirty..then reach for the stars
Lemar Pye, his mentally retarded cousin and a third man escape from McAlester State Penn, a maximum security prison. Lemar had just killed a prisoner so he had nothing to loose. The men go on a killing and robbery spree in Oklahoma and North Texas.
Looking for weapons, they stop at the ranch of Bill Stepford.
State police sgt. Bud Pewtie and his young partner, Ted Pepper, happen to stop at the ranch after a waitress at a restaurnat asked them to see if Bill was okay. He had coffee every morning and didn't show up this day and didn't answer his phone.
Not suspecting that they are approaching cold blooded killers, the police officers are ambushed. Pepper is killed and Pye injured.
Stephen Hunter gives his readers an excellent, well plotted story of the escape, the horrors that the fugutives commit and the relentless pursuit.
Pewtie is a self centered egotist who is having an affair with his young partner's wife. His lieutenant is an alcoholic and Lemar Pye is so evil that the memory is his actions will stay in the reader"s mind for a long time.
