"Virgil Flowers, tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's, kicked around for awhile before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehansion. First it was the Army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport brought him into the BCA, promising him, 'We'll only give you the hard stuff.' He's been doing the hard stuff for three years now--but never anything like this."--front flyleaf.