Deadline: Virgil Flowers, Book 8

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

The thrilling new novel in the number one New York Times best-selling series.

In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. “Issues” is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor.

Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier - a team of dognappers supplying medical labs - when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been found - and the victim is a local reporter...

©2014 John Sandford (P)2014 Penguin Group

Critic reviews

“Another brainy thriller from a prolific author, Deadline fulfills readers’ expectations of Sandford’s fiction: tense, smart and character-driven.” (Richmond Times Dispatch)

“Rich characters [and] the descriptions of small-town life, politics and corruption and the concurrent trails of action make for a fast and entertaining read.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

“Sandford's best Flowers book to date.... There is a lot of drama and mayhem in this story and readers of traditional Sandford books will be satisfied for sure. Still if you like a little humor in your plots, this book will more than sate that desire. This book is the most fun I have had reading in a long time.” (Huffington Post)

A dog gone good book.

Great book. Virgil Flowers friend, Johnson Johnson, calls Virgil about dogs being stolen in his part of Minnesota. When Virgil gets there, he finds out that more bad things are going on in addition to the missing dogs. One thing is murder and the other is a large meth cooking lab. The first murdered man was a news reporter investigating a school board that was stealing money from the school budget – millions of dollars! The dog lovers that lost their pets are convinced that the dognapping situation is the most serious and pressing of all the bad stuff going on, and to be truthful, I sort of agree with them. I love dogs. The narrator is excellent.

I rank Deadline among the best of the Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport books.

Awesome as always

Would you listen to Deadline: Virgil Flowers, Book 8 again? Why?

Yes, I typically listen to John Sandfords books several times. Even though I know the outcome, I enjoy the story so much and Eric Conger is an excellent narrator.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Deadline: Virgil Flowers, Book 8?

Cannot tell without giving away the story.

Have you listened to any of Eric Conger’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes, he is excellent as always.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Howls in the night!

One of my favorite John Sanford books

This was absolutely one of my favorite John Sanford books. It had a little bit of everything humor, suspense, murder, interesting people.Deadline kept me interested until the very end.

Loved this book and love John Sanford!!!

Parts of book made me laugh and I really enjoyed the storyline! Now to the best one.

Best of Flowers

Great book with a good story. Love Flowers. This had several funny places too. Good listen time well spent. E

fun read

I really enjoy the Virgil Flowers series. always seem to find laugh out loud moments, and poignant moments.

the best virgil flowers book so far!

this has been the best virgil flowers book and the funniest one i have listened to!

Got to love the yellow dog

Loved the way serious moments move right into funny ones that make you smile. The yellow dog is at the end so don't miss it.

one of the best of the Virgil Flowers series

great story, great dialogue, great characters. while I like most of the Lucas Davenport books, I love the Virgil Flowers stories.

Sandford, Always Entertaining, Great Characters.

Sandford does it all in Deadline. There is humor, action, dual plot lines, and the usual Virgil Flowers inanity. I really enjoyed this book. Congers narration is great. This is a totally fun listen.