by EdMcBain (Author)
Cassandra Lee Ridley is an ex-air force pilot who now scrapes a living flying low-level contraband over the border to Mexico. But, Cassandra has a taste for the better things in life and when she gets offered a $200,000 contract to fly what she assumes are drugs, she takes a deep breath and agrees to do it. The job goes perfectly, the deliveries are made and the money paid to the Mexican drug lords. One problem though. All $1.9 million dollars of the payment are fake - and printed in Teheran, of all places. The Mexicans soon want their money - and Cassandra is their first stop and first fatality. And when her naked body is thrown to the lions in a zoo in the 87th Precinct, New York, it becomes Detective Steve Carella's problem. Soon, the whole world has gone mad, the Mexicans are on the rampage, two beautiful blond girls are killing to their own agenda, a New York drugs dealer gets sucked in - and spat out - and even Arab terrorists make their own play...
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Publisher: Orion
Published: 30 Dec 2001
ISBN 10: 0575071516
ISBN 13: 9780575071513
Book Overview: One of the true greats of crime fiction joins the Orion list A star title in spring 2001, with marketing to match McBain's recent novels have been widely acclaimed as the best of his long and distinguished career: like James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block, he is still improving: 'A multifaceted, psychologically astute portrait of crime and punishment that has Edgar nominee written all over it' Publishers Weekly on CANDYLAND