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"Ex-FBI agent Steve Vail, fired for insubordination, is asked to help break a shadowy extortion group that is demanding money from the FBI to stop killing."@en
"Ex-FBI agent Steve Vail, fired for insubordination, is asked to help break a shadowy extortion group that is demanding money from the FBI to stop killing."
"When a bank robbery is foiled in Chicago, the FBI see everything. They know the guy who saved the day and for one job only, they want him back in the bureau."
"FBI deputy assistant director Kate Bannon tracks down Steve Vail, a maverick FBI agent who left the bureau for a new life as a Chicago bricklayer, because she needs Vail's help in apprehending a criminal gang, the Rubaco Pentad, with a grudge against the FBI. The Pentad follows up the murder of L.A. reporter Connie Lysander, who wrote a story critical of the FBI, with ever-increasing demands for money from the bureau to forestall future killings and the setting of sophisticated death traps. When an agent disappears while making a payoff to the gang, he becomes a prime suspect, despite Vail's reservations.--From Publisher's Weekly."@en
"Someone gives you a dangerous puzzle to solve, one that may kill you or someone else, and you're about to fail. . . . And there is no other option. No one who can help. No one but the Bricklayer. The Bricklayer is the pulse-pounding novel introducing Steve Vail, one of the most charismatic new heroes to come along in thriller fiction in many years. He's an ex'FBI agent who's been fired for insubordination but is lured back to the Bureau to work a case that has become more unsolvable'and more deadly'by the hour. A woman steps out of the shower in her Los Angeles home and is startled by an intruder sitting calmly in her bedroom holding a gun. But she is frozen with fear by what he has to say about the FBI'and what he says he must do. . . . A young agent slips into the night water off a rocky beach. He's been instructed to swim to a nearby island to deposit a million dollars demanded by a blackmailer. But his mission is riddled with hazardous tests, as if someone wanted to destroy him rather than collect the money. . . . Vail has resigned himself to his dismissal and is content with his life as a bricklayer. But the FBI, especially Deputy Assistant Director Kate Bannon, needs help with a shadowy group that has initiated a brilliant extortion plot. The group will keep killing their targets until the agency pays them off, the amount and number of bodies escalating each time the FBI fails. One thing is clear: someone who knows a little too much about the inner workings of the Bureau is very clever 'and very angry'and will kill and kill again if it means he can disgrace the FBI. Steve Vail's options 'and his time to find answers'are swiftly running out. Noah Boyd's The Bricklayer is written with the bracing authenticity only someone who has been a crack FBI investigator can provide. And in this masterful debut Boyd has created a mind-bending maze of clues and traps inside a nonstop thrill ride that is sure to leave readers exhilarated and enthralled."@en
"Steve Vail is a maverick: a trained killer and former agent who despises authority and who never met a rule he didn't break. These days he's working as a bricklayer. Now Deputy Director Kate Bannon of the FBI desperately wants his help. Because someone is killing their operatives - in complex, subtle, twisted ways - and the body count is rising fast. Someone holds a fatal grudge against the agency: someone who knows how it works, and wants bloody revenge. And it might be an inside job. To stem the tide of murders, Vail must re-enter a world he hoped he left behind long ago - his own past ..."
"The FBI recruits Steve Vail, an agent it has just fired, to solve an extortion plot by a group that is killing human targets one by one unless the bureau gives them cash, with the dollar amount and body count escalating each time the agency does not pay up."

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"Fiction"@en
"Fiction"
"Thriller / suspense"@en
"Suspense fiction"@en
"Suspense fiction"
"Detective and mystery stories"@en
"Mystery fiction"@en
"Electronic books"@en
"Large type books"
"Large type books"@en

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"The bricklayer a novel"@en
"The Bricklayer"
"The Bricklayer"@en
"The bricklayer"@en
"The bricklayer"

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