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Isle Of Dogs (Andy Brazil)

Isle Of Dogs (Andy Brazil)

by PatriciaCornwell (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2002

    $3.25

  • Used

    Paperback 2002

    $3.25

  • Used

    Hardcover 2001

    $3.25

  • New

    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Chaos breaks loose when the Governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be installed on all streets and highways, and warns that motorists will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric inhabitants of Tangier, fourteen miles off the coast of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay, respond by threatening to secede and set up an independent state, claiming that their independence lies in the history of America's first settlers, those who set sail from London's Isle of Dogs in 1607. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superintendent of Virginia State Police, and Andy Brazil, state trooper and Hammer's right hand confidant, find themselves at their wit's end as they try to protect the public from the politician's and vice versa in this pitch-perfect, darkly comic romp. With a Swiftian eye for the absurd and a deadly accurate aim on her targets, Cornwell has created another knowing story about real life policing. Visit the author's own website at patricia-cornwell.com

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 544
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Sphere
Published: 06 Jun 2002
ISBN 10: 075153188X
ISBN 13: 9780751531886
Book Overview: * GBP100, 000 campaign to include illuminated Adrail 6-sheet posters, London Underground crosstrack projection and unmissable national press ads * Poster, 48-copy display bin with custom header and giant display piece * Review coverage * Submitted for key front-of-store and Summer Reading promotions * Reading copies available

Media Reviews
Cornwell's humour is as unexpected as it is wicked. * DAILY MIRROR *
an irreverant and strikingly characterised portrait of law enforcement at the mercy of politics. * CRIME TIME *
A unique, often hilarious experience. * IRISH TATLER *
Be aware: this is not your typical Cornwell novel. Not only is there no Kay Scarpetta, but Isle of Dogs is a comic romp, a real departure for this author. It centres around a couple of characters from past books--police chief Judy Hammer and reporter-turn * Nicholas H Allison, Amazon.com *
Author Bio

Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, Postmortem, was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Often interviewed on US national television as a forensic consultant, Cornwell is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research.

Fox have acquired the film rights to the Scarpetta novels, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dr Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's books are translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international bestselling authors.