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ISBN: 0393322467

ISBN13: 9780393322460

The Detective Is Dead

Name: Thin Line between cop and criminal--excellent
Item: The Detective Is Dead
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(Book #12 in the Harpur & Iles Series)

By Bill James

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Book Overview

The detective is dead because the old process of justice doesn't work any more. No one, including Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, would testify at the trial; Harpur refused to name his informant. The three murderers who were being tried are part of a savage underworld struggle for the lucrative domain of the late drug baron Kenward Knapp. The story opens as the three assemble at Ralph Embers's seedy club The Monty to celebrate their acquittal. The key player behind the scenes is ambitious drug dealer Keith Vine, now an informant for Harpur. Vine's partners have been murdered and his life is in danger. Harpur wants to send him (and his smart, beautiful, pregnant girlfriend, Becky) safely abroad, while the coldly plotting ACC Desmond Iles wants to keep him here, to serve as bait for the killers. Part pawn, part murderous player himself, reaching hungrily for the Knapp riches, Vine disappears into a labyrinth of fear and greed, twisting through schemes and alliances that very likely will destroy him.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0393322467

ISBN13:9780393322460

Release Date:February 2002

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 4.5" x 7.2"

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Fiction Hard-Boiled Literature & Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Police Procedurals

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Rated 5 stars
Thin Line between cop and criminal--excellent

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 5, 2001

In THE DETECTIVE IS DEAD, Bill James writes again of the thinline between cop and criminal. When a judge lets two killers walkfree, Ives decides the police need to take matters into his ownhands. The results aren't pretty although they are occasionallyhysterically funny and always disturbing.Mark Lane, the chief, isnoble, believes in doing right, and is a figure of fun for his deputyIves. The criminals believe Ives is dirty--that...

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Vintage Bill James

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 15, 2001

A police procedural from the master of the genre. Hard edged narrative, terse dialogue. Bleak, cynical plot and characters expressed in an almost poetic style. The story is compelling and the characters unforgettable.

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