The First Stone - Softcover

Hall, Elliott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184854071X ISBN 13: 9781848540712

Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Private eye Felix Strange doesn't work homicide cases. He saw enough dead bodies fighting in Iran, a war that left him with a crippling disease that has no name and no cure. So when Strange is summoned to a Manhattan hotel room to investigate the dead body of America's most-loved preacher, he'd rather not get involved. Strange has a week to find the killer, and even less time to get the black-market medicine he needs to stay alive. In an America where biblical prophecy is foreign policy, Strange knows that his hiring is no accident. He can't see all the angles, and he knows he's being watched. In a race against time Strange must face religious police, organized crime and a dame with very particular ideas, while uncovering a conspiracy that reaches the very heart of his newly fundamentalist nation. One of the most stunningly original debut crime novels ever written, The First Stone is both an epic of the imagination and an action-packed mystery set in a time and place too chillingly close to our own. It is the first in an ambitious trilogy that pays homage to the genius of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, while offering a wholly original take on the noir genre.

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Elliott Hall was born and raised in Canada. He now lives in London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 184854071X
• ISBN 13: 9781848540712
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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