Destroyer Angel: An Anna Pigeon Novel

Nevada Barr

Apr 2014 · Anna Pigeon Mysteries Book 18 · Sold by Minotaur Books

About this ebook

Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation—an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will make camping and canoeing more accessible to disabled outdoorsmen.

On their second night out, Anna goes off on her own for a solo evening float on the Fox River. When she comes back, she finds that four thugs, armed with rifles, pistols, and knives, have taken the two women and their teenaged daughters captive. With limited resources and no access to the outside world, Anna has only two days to rescue them before her friends are either killed or flown out of the country, in Destroyer Angel, the New York Times bestseller by Nevada Barr.

Ratings and reviews

I am giving this three stars for bringing Heath and E back for one more round, and the introduction of the well developed genius/aspie Leah character, but as an Anna Pigeon novel I feel it relied too heavily on action packed bad guy organized crime and it moved away from the educational aspect present in many of Barrs novels such as the intricate detail in Winter Study or simply the NPS tour of her earliest in the series...I am a big fan, but I don't like when she leans in this direction as much...

Great read. Interesting to find out about Zach, and Anna joining the park service; the beginning as it were.

its nice

About the author

Nevada Barr is the author of the series of New York Times bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, a law enforcement park ranger. Her novels include Winter Study, Borderline and Burn. She won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for Track of the Cat.

Like her Anna Pigeon, Barr worked for the National Park Service as a park ranger before resigning to write full time. She had postings to such parks as Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas (where Anna Pigeon was created) and Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. She lives in New Orleans.