flowers, virgil (fictional character)

Virgil Flowers, a detective with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is called to investigate when protests against the building of a superstore PyeMart in a Minnesota river town turn deadly, with bombs being placed in PyeMart headquarters, as well as at the building site.

Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run down three teenagers with dead-end lives who are on a crime spree in Minnesota and who think they are just like Bonnie and Clyde, and their sidekick.

Virgil Flowers, a government investigator, battles "bad men" from Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and America for the recovery of an ancient stone, smuggled illegally out of Israel, said to have inscriptions on it with insights into the life of King Solomon.