A serial killer stalks post-WWII London in a gritty detective novel
featuring Scotland Yard’s Inspector Troy. An old flame has
returned to Troy’s life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American
presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make
sure Kitty’s amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner don’t ruin
her husband’s political career. But he also wants to know why Kitty
has been spotted with Danny Ryan, whose twin brothers, in addition to
owning one of London’s hottest jazz clubs, are said to have
inherited the crime empire of a fallen mobster. Before Rork can
find out, he meets a gruesome end. And he isn’t the only one: bodies
have started turning up around London, dismembered in the same bizarre
and horrifying way. Is it possible that the blood trail leads back to
Troy’s own police force and into Troy’s own forgotten past? Flesh
Wounds, a compulsively readable thriller, finds one of our most able
storytellers at the height of his game. “There are characters
based on (or at least inspired by) everyone from Frank Sinatra to
Meyer Lansky, enough dismembered bodies to satisfy the most morbid
imaginations and frequent flashes of sly wit and social conscience
that illuminate a vanished world.” —Publishers Weekly
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ISBN
9780802195838
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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