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Downstate

A Novella (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)

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Downstate

By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Christina Traister
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Special Agent Constant Marlowe pursues a lead to rural Illinois and finds a hornet’s nest of conspiracy in a pulse-pounding novella by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, where nothing is what it seems.

Special Agent Constant Marlowe is in pursuit of “Mr. X,” a key player in organized crime. Her mission is to collar him and flip him into a cooperating witness. The only problem? Marlowe doesn’t know who he is or even what he looks like. It doesn’t help that the trail has led her to a farming community in the nether land of Downstate, those stretches of Illinois where endless fields of late-season corn block the truth…and any sign of coming threat. When Marlowe stumbles on a teenage boy’s convenience store robbery, she suddenly finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy that shatters the illusion of a sleepy small town.

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Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedurals Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Exciting

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Critic reviews

“Christina Traister portrays seasoned Special Agent Constant Marlowe, who has been a bit toughened by years of frustrating cases and hardened criminals.… Traister performs every word of this procedural with the intensity and deliberation that you'd expect from an experienced FBI agent.”AudioFile Magazine

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easy listen. well written story. loved the ending/ outcome. agent Marlow had me gripped from the first custody

likeable main character

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