The Mailman

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Pub Date Jan 28 2025 | Archive Date Dec 31 2024
Penzler Publishers | Mysterious Press

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Description

Mercury Carter is a deliveryman and he takes his job very seriously. When a parcel is under his care, he will stop at nothing to deliver it directly to its intended recipient. Not even, as in the current case, when he finds a crew of violent men at the indicated address that threaten his life and take the woman who lives there hostage. That’s because Carter has special skills from his former life as a federal agent with the postal inspection service, skills that make him particularly useful for delivering items in circumstances as dangerous as these.

After Carter dispatches the goons sent to kill him, he enters a home besieged by criminals—but the leader of the gang escapes with attorney Rachel Stanfield before the mailman can complete his assignment. With Rachel’s husband Glenn in tow, Carter takes off in pursuit of the kidnapper and his quarry, hunting them across Indiana, up to Chicago, and into small-town Illinois. Along the way, he slowly picks off members of the crew and uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy and a powerful crime syndicate, all in service of his main objective: to hand the package over to Rachel. Carter has never missed a delivery and isn’t about to start now.

Introducing a new lone-wolf protagonist to rival Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, Steve Hamilton’s Nick Mason, and Gregg Hurwitz’s Evan Smoak, The Mailman is a pulse-pounding series opener with captivating action and enough thrills to leave readers anxiously awaiting the next installment.

Mercury Carter is a deliveryman and he takes his job very seriously. When a parcel is under his care, he will stop at nothing to deliver it directly to its intended recipient. Not even, as in the...


Advance Praise

"Welsh-Huggins’ The Mailman delivers heart-pounding action and twists from start to finish. If you like smart, fast-paced writing, and an edge of your seat plot, this is your kind of book." -Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of Blind to Midnight

"I dare you to read the first chapter of The Mailman and not be completely hooked. This is the best kind of thriller, where nobody is who you think they are and every twist in the story is a bigger surprise than you ever could have imagined. There’s no author in the business who can keep you off-balance quite like Andrew Welsh-Huggins . . . The Mailman is his best yet." -Steve Hamilton, two-time Edgar Award-winning author of The Honorable Assassin

"Welsh-Huggins’ The Mailman delivers heart-pounding action and twists from start to finish. If you like smart, fast-paced writing, and an edge of your seat plot, this is your kind of book." -Reed...


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ISBN 9781613166109
PRICE $26.95 (USD)
PAGES 360

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A former postal inspection agent tracks a violent crew through the Midwest to rescue a kidnapped woman! Good book! This book had suspense, intrigue, action, murder, mystery, a great who done it and a few twists and turns. The story was interesting! I definitely recommend reading this book! Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!

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A witty thriller that breathes new life into the thrillerverse with a memorable character with distinctive quirks that help set him in his own path with gritty action and a twisty narrative that doesn’t let go of your attention until you’ve finished reading the final word.

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