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Broken Heartland (Mad Dog & Englishman Series),Used
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From Publishers WeeklyThis engaging but flawed electiontime read, the fourth mystery (after 2004's Plains Crazy) to feature Sheriff English of Benteen County, Kans., examines the nexus of politics and religion. English, up for reelection, faces stiff competition from a bornagain Christian who tells voters they should oust the sheriff because his daughters have had abortions. When a deputy crashes into a school bus full of teens on a choir outing, the bus driver vanishes. Before English can figure out what happened to the driver, he must contend with a school shooting. The frequent shifts of pointofview at times disrupt the narrative flow, while having both of the sheriff's daughters named Heather is confusing. Still, the novel's focus on hotbutton political issues will help hold readers' attention, and a setup for a sequel that gives the more intriguing Heather a central role may entice them to come back. (Nov.)Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Product DescriptionSleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. The radical religious right is out to unseat Sheriff English, better known as Englishman. Englishmans only available deputy rammed a school bus carrying the Benteen County teen choir while chasing a vehicle involved in a mystery.From BooklistSheriff English, better known as Englishman, is having a very bad day. He faces a tough fight for reelection with a rightwing fundamentalist. Still grieving for his wife, who died in Prairie Gothic, he has major problems when his only available deputy rams his car into a school bus carrying the local teen choir. Then a student smuggles a gun into the high school and takes hostages, and a private militia seizes a farm and takes still more hostages, one of whom is Englishman's Cheyenne brother, Mad Dog, who has rushed home from a vision quest because he has a premonition that the sheriff is in danger. Readers will find sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, wide awake and action packed in Hayes' new addition to this quirky series. The mixture of action, humor, and politics will keep readers interested as they wonder just how much can be squeezed into 24 hours. Bibel, BarbaraReview"Zany characters, nonstop action, and multilevel plotlines all converge on one Kansas farmhouse where something very strange is occurring." (Library Journal)"Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, [is] wide awake and action packed in Hayes' new addition to this quirky series." (Booklist)About the AuthorJ.M. Hayes was born and raised on the flat earth of central Kansas. He graduated from Wichita State University and did another three years of post graduate work at the University of Arizona. He shares a home in Tucson, AZ with his wife, two computers, four thousand or so books, two German Shepherds, and a Scottish Terror.
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