![]() The theft, for which Peck brings in the none-too-bright fraternal pair Hayk and Hamlet Simonian, goes off without a hitch, and one of the cats is soon ready to be rendered, a process whose unlovely effects Sandford describes in exquisite detail. barred from practicing since he groped one too many unconscious patients, to steal a pair of Amur tigers from the Minnesota Zoo, kill them, and mine their bodies for all manner of nostrums. It’s just as illegal in China as it is in the rest of the world to deal in so-called natural medicines derived from slain wild animals, but it’s much more common to ignore the Chinese laws, as California mobster Zhang Min does when he hires Winston Peck VI, an M.D. Virgil Flowers, of Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, pivots from dognapping ( Field of Prey, 2014, etc.) to a catnapping whose victims are really big cats. ![]()
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