Warren Harding
Aretha and Benjamin Franklin
Debbie Myers
Peyton Manning
Meg and Private Ryan
Ernie Bilko
Roy Hobbs
Bruce, Spike, and Robert E. Lee
Scott Ryder
Neil and Hope Diamond
ALSO BY DAVID ROSENFELT
ANDY CARPENTER NOVELS
One Dog Night
New Tricks
Play Dead
Dead Center
Sudden Death
Bury the Lead
First Degree
Open and Shut
THRILLERS
Heart of a Killer
On Borrowed Time
Down to the Wire
Don’t Tell a Soul
DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar and Shamus Award–winning author of four stand-alones and nine previous Andy Carpenter novels, most recently One Dog Night. He and his wife live in Maine with twenty-seven golden retrievers that they’ve rescued.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
MINOTAUR BOOKS
An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
LEADER OF THE PACK. Copyright © 2012 by David Rosenfelt. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.minotaurbooks.com
Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein
Cover photo by TStockphoto / Shutterstock Images
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Rosenfelt, David.
Leader of the pack / David Rosenfelt. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-250-01490-0 (e-book)
1. Carpenter, Andy (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Dogs—Fiction. 3. New Jersey—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3618.O838L43 2012
813'.6—dc23
2012007788
e-ISBN 9781250014900
First Edition: July 2012