When Deal's Friend, the Proprietor of Miami's premier independent bookstore, is murdered only days after the news of an impending book superstore opening across the street, the police write it off as random violence. But Deal isn't ready to close the book on the case. Clutched in his dead friend's fist was a tract from an arch-conservative multimillionaire preacher, and during his investigation, Deal discovers that this Bible-thumper is angling to get a stranglehold on the media -- from books to television to the Internet. As Deal sets out with his estranged wife for the preacher's snowbound Omaha headquarters, a pair of down-home assassins close in for an icy kill.
Packed with the chills and thrills for which Les Standiford has become renowned, Deal on Ice is also a beautifully rendered tale of an old love rekindled and a frightening demonstration of the fragility of those rights we cherish most. Tautly paced and often hilarious, Deal on Ice has everything it needs to put its hero and its author in the national spotlight.
"(A) topnotch thriller". -- Chicago Tribune
