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Legally Dead

Edna Buchanan

U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program relocates a mobster, now a government witness, to a small rural town after creating a new identity for him. The man proves to be a monster unleashed on an unsuspecting community. The results are tragic. To make amends Venturi leaves the Marshals Service and assembles a team of close confidants to secretly create new identities for innocent men and women whose lives have been ruined through no fault of their own. And before being declared "legally dead"--They have to die. The result is a combination of Extreme Makeover, Mission Impossible, and CSI -- the last in reverse. In these "deaths," some of them spectacular, phony forensics must be created to fit the "facts" and fool the experts. But when one of Venturi's clients is murdered, and Venturi's own loved ones are threatened, Venturi must call upon his former training in both the U.S. Marines Force Recon and the Marshals Service, as he is hunted by police, prosecutors, ruthless killers, and his own former federal colleagues.

GenresFictionMystery & DetectiveHard-BoiledPolice ProceduralCity Life

547 pages, 3 editions

English edition · First published 2008 by Thorndike Press · ISBN 9781410410658

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Editions

3 editions

English

  • Legally Dead · Thorndike Press · 2008 · ISBN 9781410410658 This page
  • Legally Dead · Books On Tape · 2008 · ISBN 9781415956014
  • Legally Dead · Simon & Schuster · 2008 · ISBN 9781416579410

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