John Sandford's Shock Wave starts off with a bang when a bomb goes off in the headquarters of superstore chain PyeMart, killing a secretary. The second blast kills a construction worker in Butternut Falls, the Minnesota town where top cop Virgil Flowers has arrived, pronto, to figure whether the killer is among the town's environmentalists or local merchants. It seems no one except the city council is happy about a mega-store that would jeopardize small businesses and create a possible ecological disaster. It doesn't take Virgil long to figure out the killer is smart, skilled...and totally crazy. But Virgil senses he may also be wreckless. And with that knowledge, he'll try to draw him out...so he can take him down.
