Lake Country

��ean Doolittle is a young writer with serious chops,��says George Pelecanos, and Laura Lippman calls him ��ip, smart, and mordantly funny.��Now the acclaimed author of Safer returns with a mesmerizing story of tragedy, revenge, and redemption.

Five years ago, successful architect Wade Benson killed a young woman when he fell asleep at the wheel. His punishment: two days in jail for every year of his probation. But for one friend of the victim�� family��n ex-marine named Darryl Potter��his punishment isn�� enough. Potter sets out to even the score by kidnapping Benson�� twenty-year-old daughter. It�� a bad, bad plan, and only Mike Barlowe, Potter�� former combat buddy, knows how to stop it. With a beautiful news reporter, the cops, and a bounty hunter on Potter�� tail, Barlowe races to head off his troubled friend before innocent people get hurt. The hunters and the hunted plunge north into Minnesota�� Lake Country, each with their own ambitions and demons, each headed for a violent collision��nd for one horrifying moment of life or death.

��s long as there are writers like Sean Doolittle out there, American crime fiction has got a sterling future ahead of it.����ennis Lehane

��ith Lake Country, Sean Doolittle has out-Fargoed Fargo. Already a master of Midwestern noir, he takes a huge, novelistic leap with his newest work, a complex, quirky, and tremendously satisfying story of revenge and redemption. If you haven�� yet read a Doolittle novel, you��e missed the cutting edge of crime fiction today. Trust me, this guy is the future.����illiam Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of Northwest Angle