The Numbers

The Thomas Prescott Series

By: Nick Pirog

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

The electrifying prequel and perfect introduction to the bestselling and fan-favorite Thomas Prescott series, with over 1.3 million downloads and 10,000+ five-star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads!

After getting canned from the Seattle PD, brilliant, wisecracking Thomas Prescott follows his sister Lacy to Philadelphia, where she swims on the Drexel University team. While Thomas’s slapstick antics mask a keen analytic mind, it’s his nose for trouble that leads him again and again into dicey situations. The ex–homicide detective is not long in Philly before getting caught up in two high-powered criminal cases.

Thomas stumbles into a crime scene amid the Occupy Philadelphia protests. Activist Brooke Wexley has been strangled within sight of city hall. While demonstrating against economic inequality, the college student hid her own family’s wealthy background. The über-rich Wexleys have many dark secrets—one of which may have led to Brooke’s violent death.

Thomas is also called to join an emergency multiagency task force on the trail of a prolific serial killer who leaves gruesome calling cards: a three-digit number carved on each of his many victims. It’s when Thomas realizes the murders are linked to the Numbers—the old illegal street lottery—that his investigation shifts into high gear. The trail jumps back to the past before rushing back to the present like a tsunami of fire, bent on revenge.

Amid all this, Lacy has a health scare, and Thomas’s priorities shift. Encountering gambling church ladies, felonious businessmen, and murderous mobsters—with an investigation hampered by a competitive colleague and Lacy’s narcoleptic pug—Thomas must summon all his considerable powers to root out the guilty and dangerous while caring for his adored sister.

Reader’s Note: This book takes place when Thomas Prescott is thirty years old (three years before the events of Unforeseen). If you are new to the Thomas Prescott series, this is the perfect place to start!

©2023 Nick Pirog (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

Couldn’t stop listening!

Absolutely wonderful!! I listened to it completely in 1 day! This book had me laughing out loud and on the edge of my seat!!

Left out loud funny

fantastic narrating, laughing out loud throughout the book. Great characters, interesting plot. Looking forward to the next book.

Funny, fast-paced, and well performed

Nick Pirog and his protagonist, Thomas Prescott, do not disappoint their fans.

Nick's humor and lack of respect for authority are a constant as he weaves through a complex case tracking a serial killer around Philadelphia.

Thomas Prescott breaks the rules and pulls no punches while he uncovers and exposes psychopaths and corrupt business people. He picks fights with his colleagues and mobsters who are less forgiving.

What brings me back to Nick Pirog's books is the forever human aspects Thomas brings to the party.

He adopts a narcoleptic puppy, breaks up with a vengeful woman who is an elite hacker ready to use her skills to embarrass and punish and comforts a sister diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

A Nick Pirog audiobook narrated by Johnny Heller is an excellent investment.

Great prequel

This was a very well done prequel to the other Prescott series books, complete with a Baxter origin story!

Another great book in the series

I first got acquainted with Nick Pirog and Thomas Prescott through the audible plus catalog and was instantly a fan. This latest book did not disappoint, hopefully there will be more coming in the future. Totally worth the credit in my opinion.