Goodbye Sister Disco

James Patrick Hunt

Macmillan, Mar 18, 2008 - Fiction - 305 pages

Lieutenant George Hastings, a cool-headed, quick-thinking police detective, leapt to the forefront of the St. Louis Police Department when two beat cops were gunned down, and he led the joint FBI/police taskforce that caught the killer.

Now he is back at work with the FBI on a new case: Cordelia Penmark, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, has been kidnapped and her boyfriend callously executed outside of a posh holiday party for his law firm.

The murder was clearly a message—the kidnappers are willing to take this as far as they have to—and the target and the ransom demand indicate that the crime is politically motivated. But the investigators are stumped. Wary because of bruised egos on his team and bad blood among members of the young woman’s family, and suspicious of the kidnappers’ intentions, Hastings knows that there’s more than simple politics in play as the kidnappers pull him and the girl’s father into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Slick, sharp, and authentic, Goodbye Sister Disco, the sequel to the acclaimed novel The Betrayers, establishes James Patrick Hunt as one of crime fiction’s rising stars.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 8
• Section 3: 10
• Section 4: 16
• Section 5: 23
• Section 6: 27
• Section 7: 32
• Section 8: 40
• Section 9: 47
• Section 10: 57
• Section 11: 70
• Section 12: 74
• Section 13: 84
• Section 14: 88
• Section 15: 92
• Section 16: 99
• Section 17: 107
• Section 18: 118
• Section 19: 124
• Section 20: 139
• Section 21: 155
• Section 22: 165
• Section 23: 169
• Section 24: 174
• Section 25: 184
• Section 26: 193
• Section 27: 204
• Section 28: 208
• Section 29: 213
• Section 30: 231
• Section 31: 241
• Section 32: 247
• Section 33: 255
• Section 34: 273
• Section 35: 276
• Section 36: 291
• Section 37: 301
• Section 38: 304

About the author

JAMES PATRICK HUNT, a lawyer, was born in Surrey, England. A graduate of St. Louis University and Marquette University Law School, he is the author of three previous novels and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Goodbye Sister Disco; Issue 2 of Lieutenant George Hastings
• Author: James Patrick Hunt
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2008
• ISBN: 0312361564, 9780312361563
• Length: 305 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural; Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage