Title: The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning (#11 in the Dave Brandstetter series) Author: Joseph Hansen Published by: Viking, 1990 ISBN: 0-670-83324-X [hardcover, 181 pages]
Vaughn Thomas lies dead in foggy autumn woods. In jungle fatigues and combat boots, he'd gone to play paintball, and ended up with half his head blown away. It's deer hunting season. The police write it off as an accident.But TV newsman Cecil Harris worked with the boy, and tells Dave Brandstetter, "When his phone rang, he'd look at it like it was a rattlesnake. There was something out there, and he didn't want to hear from it."
So Brandstetter, a veteran death claims investigator, comes out of retirement to stalk Vaughn Thomas' unknown killer through handsome California landscapes that conceal a vicious mix of lies, hatred, terror, death, and death again.
Why did young Thomas, a wealthy city boy, leave home to join George Hetzel's backcountry white supremacist movement, only to flee it later and go into hiding? What has become of the down-home girl he lived with? Why is her ex-husband desperate to find her -- to protect her, or to kill her? Why does Hetzel send his skinhead squad to murder Dave?
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