Criminal Conversation - Softcover

McBain, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504039319 ISBN 13: 9781504039314

Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2016

Synopsis

An assistant district attorney launches a one-man crusade against the Mafia in this legal thriller from the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.
 
The call comes from Narcotics, Manhattan South. A low-level drug dealer just got caught in a buy-bust, and he’s ready to spill his guts. It wouldn’t be a priority—especially not four days before Christmas—but the thug just mentioned the Mafia, and that means all hands on deck. It’s just what Michael Welles has been waiting for. An assistant district attorney with a burning hatred of organized crime, he’ll do anything for a crack at the mob. He’s about to get a chance to bring down the whole clan—but his loved ones’ lives are at stake.
 
The dealer they arrested is an unlucky gambler whose debts put him smack in the middle of two of New York’s most powerful crime families. Following the man’s lead, Michael sets up a massive eavesdropping operation intended to trap the ruthless new leader of the local mob—but what he hears on the other end of the wiretap will make him doubt everything he knows about his family, his wife, and himself.
 
From the legendary Ed McBain, who “virtually invented the American police procedural with his gritty 87th Precinct series,”  Criminal Conversation is as realistic as it gets (The New York Times).
 
 

About this title

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About the Author:

Ed McBain is one of the many pen names of legendary author Evan Hunter (1926–2005). Named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, Hunter is best known for creating the long-running 87th Precinct series, which followed an ensemble cast of police officers in the fictional city of Isola. A pioneer of the police procedural, he remains one of the best-loved mystery novelists of the twentieth century. Hunter also wrote under the pseudonyms Richard Marsten, Hunt Collins, John Abbott, Ezra Hannon, Curt Cannon, and others.

About this edition

• Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1504039319
• ISBN 13: 9781504039314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350