The Cat Dancers

Publisher Marketing: When two lowlifes rob a gas station, murder the attendant, and then incinerate bystanders who are filling up their minivan, the Manceford County, North Carolina, police quickly arrest the killers at a nearby motel. But a stubborn judge throws out the case because the suspects were not read their rights, leaving Sheriff Bobby Lee Baggett and Lieutenant Cam Richter to face the anger of the victims families. Soon thereafter, a mysterious e-mail arrives in the department: a link to a video of one of the murderers being executed in a homemade electric chair, ending with a voice announcing, That s one. The shocking video spreads throughout the Internet, drawing the attention of local, state, and federal authorities and national media, and putting intense pressure on Bobby Lee and Cam to find the vigilante before he claims his second victim. Assigned to head the search, Cam finds himself resented by some of his fellow officers and subtly threatened by others. His job is further complicated by the fact that the offending judge is also his ex-wife and now after years apart, and an uneasy reconciliation his sometime lover. Cam s questions lead him to a remote mountain area in western North Carolina and a group of daredevils who call themselves the cat dancers so named because they have tracked the last wild mountain lions in the region to their dens, where they have photographed the animals face-to-face, or died trying. Cam must hunt this group and the cats they seek, or become their next target." Review Citations: Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 60 (EAN 9781423306160, Compact Disc) Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2005 pg. 54 (EAN 9780312333775, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 09/12/2005 pg. 38 (EAN 9780312333775, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2005 pg. 992 (EAN 9780312333775, Hardcover) Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 60 (EAN 9780312333775, Hardcover) Library Journal 10/01/2005 pg. 65 (EAN 9780312333775, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Entertainment Weekly 12/09/2005 pg. 94 (EAN 9780312333775, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 208 (EAN 9780312333775, Hardcover) Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 60 (EAN 9781596000704, Compact Disc) Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 60 (EAN 9781596000698, Compact Disc) Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 60 (EAN 9781596000674, Analog Audio Cassette) Contributor Bio:  Deutermann, P T P. T. Deutermann is the author of sixteen previous novels, including Ghosts of Bungo Suido and Pacific Glory, which won the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. He spent twenty-six years in military and government service, which included a Pearl Harbor tour of duty; his father was a commodore on the Okinawa picket line; and Deutermann s uncle, both of his brothers, and both of his children were naval officers. He lives with his wife in North Carolina. Contributor Bio:  Hill, Dick Reader of over four hundred audiobooks, Dick Hill has won three coveted Audie Awards and been nominated numerous times. He is also the recipient of several "AudioFile" Earphones Awards. "AudioFile" includes Dick on their prestigious list of Golden Voices.