Publisher Description
The riveting third novel in the Sully Carter series finds the gutsy reporter investigating a shooting at the Capitol and the violent world of D.C.'s most corrupt mental institution In the doldrums of a broiling Washington summer, a madman goes on a shooting rampage in the Capitol building. Sully Carter is at the scene and witnesses the carnage firsthand and files the first and most detailed account of the massacre. The shooter, Terry Waters, is still on the loose and becomes obsessed with Sully, luring the reporter into the streets of D.C. during the manhunt. Not much is known about Waters when he is finally caught, except that he hails from the Indian reservations of Oklahoma. His rants in the courtroom quickly earn him a stay at Saint Elizabeth's mental hospital, and the paper sends Sully out west to find out what has led a man to such a horrific act of violence. As Sully hits the road to see what he can dig up on Waters back in Oklahoma, he leaves his friend Alexis to watch over his nephew, Josh, who is visiting DC for the summer. Traversing central Oklahoma, Sully discovers that a shadow lurks behind the Waters family history and that the ghosts of the past have pursued the shooter for far longer than Sully could have known. When a local sheriff reveals the Waterses' deep connection with Saint Elizabeth's, Sully realizes he must find a way to gain access to the asylum, no matter the consequences.
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About Neely Tucker
Neely Tucker was
born in Lexington, Mississippi, one of the poorest places in America, in 1963.
He worked for newspapers in Miami and Detroit before taking postings in Europe
and sub-Saharan Africa. Filing stories from more than sixty countries, he
frequently covered war and violent conflict. When he returned to Washington,
DC, in 2000 to work for The Washington
Post, he covered criminal courts and the fates of former prison inmates.
Elmore Leonard, a friend in Detroit, used him as the basis and namesake for a
foreign correspondent in “Cuba Libre.” Tucker is now a staff writer for the Post’s Sunday Magazine and lives just outside DC with his wife, Carol, their
three children, and one very large Rottweiler who is, of course, named Sully.