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The Pusher

The Pusher

by EdMcBain (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $4.68

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Two a.m. in the bitter cold of winter: the young Hispanic man's body is found in a tenement basement. The rope around his neck suggests a clear case of suicide - until the autopsy reveals he'd overdosed on heroin. He was a pusher, and now a thousand questions press down on the detectives of the 87th Precinct. Who set up the phony hanging? Whose fingerprints were on the syringe found at the scene? Who was making threatening phone calls, attempting to implicate Lieutenant Byrnes' teenage son? Somebody is pushing the 87th Precinct hard, and Detective Steve Carella and Lieutenant Pete Byrnes have to push back harder - before a frightening and deadly chain tightens its trip.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 03 Jul 2003
ISBN 10: 0752857932
ISBN 13: 9780752857930
Book Overview: An 87th Precinct novel from one of the true greats of crime fiction Ed McBain won the prestigious CWA/Cartier Diamond Dagger - the first US writer to do so He always receives terrific reviews: 'A masterpiece of crime writing ... I think Ed McBain is brilliant' DAILY MIRROR 'Ed McBain is, by far, the best at what he does. Case closed' PEOPLE 'Zestful, inventive and utterly compulsive ... Shrewd, funny, tough and so topical that it practically sprints from the page' LITERARY REVIEW 'Ed McBain effectively invented the police procedural... McBain delivers his complex story with panache and real zest' OBSERVER 'Finely tuned prose and wittily ironic characterisation ... It is writers such as McBain who bring the great American urban mythology to life' THE TIMES 'A master storyteller' WASHINGTON TIMES 'Unbeatable ... the finest police procedural series ever...Keep 'em coming, Ed' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Author Bio
Ed McBain (1926-2005) was born Salvatore Lambino in New York. He changed his name to Evan Hunter and under that name is known as the author of The Blackboard Jungle and as the writer of the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The 87th Precinct series numbers over fifty novels. McBain was a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and was one of three American writers to be awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.