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BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD (Award Winner)
by Chercover, Sean
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061128678
- ISBN 13
- 9780061128677
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Morrow, 2007. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by the author at title page. A highly regarded first novel as it was nominated for five awards and won one!. It is a GUMSHOE AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel and was an ANTHONY, BARRY, ELLIS and THRILLER AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. A disillusioned newspaper reporter turned private detective, Ray Dudgeon isn't trying to save the world. He just wants to do an honest job, and do it well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds for survival make for a sucker's bet. While working on a movie in Chicago, Hollywood locations manager Bob Loniski saw something he shouldn't have. Now he's a prosecution witness against a suspected member of the Chicago Outfit. Petrified, he comes to Ray for protection. Ray's mob contacts insist that they have no interest in Loniski, so he takes the bodyguard gig. Then people start dying and everything goes to hell. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Synopsis
A disillusioned newspaper reporter turned private detective, Ray Dudgeon isn't trying to save the world. He just wants to do an honest job, and do it well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds for survival make for a sucker's bet. . . .While working on a movie in Chicago, Hollywood locations manager Bob Loniski saw something he shouldn't have. Now he's a prosecution witness against a suspected member of the Chicago Outfit. Petrified, he comes to Ray for protection. Ray's mob contacts insist that they have no interest in Loniski, so he takes the bodyguard gig.Then people start dying and everything goes to hell.Ray's investigation leads to a stash of blackmail files involving the sex trade, Washington political corruption, and a deadly power struggle among Chicago's organized crime bosses—setting the FBI, the Chicago police, and the mob on his tail. He now holds evidence against top-ranking cops and politicians . . . but with the line between good and bad blurring, he doesn't know who he can trust.If he does the right thing, Ray is sure to die. But if he doesn't, how can he live with himself?From the back alleys of Chicago to the man-sions of Beverly Hills to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., Sean Chercover's Big City, Bad Blood propels readers relentlessly forward on a bullet-fast, adrenaline-pumping ride they will not soon forget.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017949
- Title
- BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD (Award Winner)
- Author
- Chercover, Sean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0061128678
- ISBN 13
- 9780061128677
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Award Winner, Mystery, Crime, Chicago, Debut Novel, Hardboiled, Signed,
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHICAGO;
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