From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Multiple-award-winning author Rick Riordan brings back smart-mouthed Texas P.I. Tres Navarre for his most dangerous case yet. If you think the academic world is deadly dull, you're half right.... When a controversial English professor is found shot to death, Tres Navarre — P.I. and Ph.D. — is the only local academic crazy enough to accept the emergency opening at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Police assure him they already have a suspect, so while they wrap up the open-and-shut case, all Tres has to do is teach three classes, grade on a curve ... and walk in a dead man's shoes. It should be an easy assignment — but one thing Tres doesn't do is easy. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn't stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin — and lands in a high-stakes game of gangster honor on the darkest streets of San Antonio's West Side.... Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels: BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND

リック・リオーダンが世界的な児童文学作家として名を馳せる前に磨き上げた、至高のハードボイルド魂がここにあります。知性と野性が同居する主人公トレス・ナバールの魅力は、単なる探偵の枠を超え、冷徹な学歴社会と血塗られた裏社会の境界線を鮮やかに描き出します。虚飾に満ちた象牙の塔で蠢く人間の業を、これほどまでに乾いたユーモアと熱量で抉り出した作品は他にありません。 本作の真髄は、サンアントニオという土地が持つ特有の熱気と、そこに流れる極道者の美学を文学的に昇華させた点にあります。完璧すぎる証拠の裏に潜む真実を追う中で、読者は知的な謎解きと、拳を交えるような生々しい生の躍動を同時に体験するでしょう。ジャンルの垣根を超えたリオーダンの筆致は、まさにミステリという名の芸術であり、魂を揺さぶる至福の読書体験を約束してくれます。