Gone Fishing

Experience a heart-pumping and thrilling tale of suspense!
Originally published in THRILLER (2006), edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.
In this tag team Thriller Short, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child feature New York City policeman Vincent D’Agosta, who becomes involved with the theft of an ancient Incan sacrificial knife. But before D’Agosta can apprehend the thieves, they meet an untimely death. The particularly gruesome nature of the murders will leave D’Agosta longing for his more conventional villains heat-packing crackheads, Hummer-driving pimps, two-dollar murderers, subway turnstile jumpers and the assortment of other freaks and bad guys he knows so well from the streets of New York City. His instincts tell him two things for certain: the inexplicable violence of this case has nothing to do with the original heist, and there are going to be more murders.
"Gone Fishing features one of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s favorite characters, Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta, of the New York City Police Department: a working-class cop from Queens with a heart as big as the ocean. D’Agosta made his debut in the team’s first thriller, The Relic, alongside their famous Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI. In the Paramount film made from that novel, Pendergast was cut from the story entirely, leaving Vincent D’Agosta (played by Tom Sizemore) as the unrivaled star. It was the character’s fifteen minutes of fame, so to speak and events in D’Agosta’s life seemed to go downhill from there."