Deadfall (Pen Wilkinson, #5)
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Paraplegic young attorney Pen Wilkinson is unemployed and recovering from violent trauma when the FBI and police offer her an intriguing but risky assignment: working undercover at a defense contractor to investigate a young woman's murder. As Pen, under a false identity, probes the company's inner workings, she discovers infiltration by a foreign espionage ring, engaged in stealing top-secret defense technology for rogue nations. As the company's security net closes in on her, Pen presses on, working frantically to learn the identity of the thieves, and of the young woman's killer, before she meets the same fate.
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A former corporate attorney. A Minnesota farm kid. And, in recent years, an author. Lutterman coined the term "corporate thriller" to describe his series of suspense-filled novels featuring Pen Wilkinson, a sassy, whip-smart, paraplegic attorney, described by the St. Paul Pioneer Press as ". . . one of the most intriguing new characters on the Minnesota crime scene." The series began with Downfall, praised by Mystery Gazette as " . . . an exhilarating, action-packed financial thriller." Brian's most recent book, Nightfall, was named 2019 runner-up for Minnesota's best adult novel in the Minnesota Library Association's annual competition. Lutterman's first book, Bound to Die, was a Minnesota Book Award finalist. Brian lives with his family in the Twin cities. Visit his website at: www.brianlutterman.com.
