From the #1_New York Times_bestselling author of the\nPercy Jackson and the Olympians series
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\nThe triple-crown winner of mystery’s most prestigious awards–the\nEdgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus–Rick Riordan blasted onto the\ncrime scene with one of its freshest and most intriguing\nprotagonists, Tres Navarre. In Mission Road , Navarre returns\nin a wrenching crime drama in which he must revisit the sins of the\npast to catch a killer about to get away with\nmurder…again.

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San Antonio private investigator Tres Navarre is used to working\non the edge–that razor-sharp line between legal and life sentence.\nBut this time he’s stepped straight into a no-man’s-land. When an\nold friend appears at his door spattered with blood and wanted for\nattempted homicide, Tres doesn’t have to think twice about where\nhis loyalty lies–or the consequences.

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Ralph Arguello is a criminal who put the street life behind him\nwhen he married SAPD detective Ana DeLeon. Now Ana’s been gunned\ndown and her fellow cops don’t need to look far to find a prime\nsuspect. For Ana recently reopened the most infamous cold case in\nSAPD history–the unsolved murder on notorious Mission Road eighteen\nyears before that threw the San Antonio underworld into bloody\nchaos. Ana was about to bring charges against the suspected killer:\nher husband, Ralph Arguello.Tres is sure that Ralph didn’t do\nit–and that he didn’t shoot his wife. But with the police and the\nMafia both out for revenge, there’s no one to turn to for\nhelp.

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Now, armed and dangerous, the targets of a citywide manhunt,\nTres and Ralph have just hours to discover what really happened on\nMission Road almost two decades ago. To find the truth, they must\nset a collision course with the past–and with a secret that will\ntear their lives apart.

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From the Hardcover edition.

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