by EdMcBain (Author)
Kill me if you can - that was Pepe Miranda's challenge. Murderer, two-bit hero of the street gangs, he was holed up somewhere in the 87th Precinct, making the cops look like fools and cheered on by every neighbourhood punk. It was not a challenge Lieutenant Pete Byrnes and the detectives in the squad room could leave alone. Not in the sticky, July heat of the city with the gangs just waiting to explode into violence ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 02 Sep 2004
ISBN 10: 0752863797
ISBN 13: 9780752863795
Book Overview: An 87th Precinct novel from one of the true greats of crime fiction Published alongside THE FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH - new in paperback Ed McBain won the prestigious CWA/Cartier Diamond Dagger - the first US writer to do so He always receives terrific reviews: 'A classic piece of hardboiled Ed ... The phrasemaking is masterful ... McBain is the real McCoy' GUARDIAN 'The outcome is clever, but the greatest pleasure is the skill of the narrative' SCOTSMAN 'McBain delivers his complex story with panache and real zest' OBSERVER 'A master storyteller' WASHINGTON TIMES 'Unbeatable ... the finest police procedural series ever ... Keep 'em coming, Ed' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Finely tuned prose and wittily ironic characterisation ... It is writers such as McBain who bring the great American urban mythology to life' THE TIMES 'Lively, inventive, convincing, suspenseful and wholly satisfactory' NEW YORK TIMES 'A masterpiece of crime writing ... Ed McBain is brilliant' DAILY MIRROR
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