Abrechnung In Las Vegas
by:
Thomas Perry (author)
ISBN:
9783499260193 (3499260190)
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Rowohlt
Edition language: Deutsch
Series: Butcher's Boy (#1)
Pretty tempted to round my 3.5-star rating to 4 because of Elizabeth Waring who, despite being a woman in the man's man's world of 80s government, and proclaiming that “I'm not even a field investigator. I'm a data analyst.” still manages to be pretty kickass. Data nerds FTW!
The novel tells the overlapping narratives of a hit-man known as "The Butcher's Boy" who gets caught amid tensions of the organized crime assortment, and an intelligent and hard-working Justice Department crime analyst on her first field assignment. The Butcher's Boy is a good read, both tense and i...
In the introduction to this 1983 Edgar winner for best first novel, Michael Connelly promises the reader a great suspense ride and the book lives up to it. A lean, spare prose style with a dual narrative that follows a Justice Department employee and the title character that was read with a low key ...
Elizabeth Waring is a Justice Department agent assigned to investigate the killing of a union leader, the victim of a fertilizer explosion in the back of his truck. Was it an accident, or the work of a hitman... ?Yeah, I have to admit that this wasn't what I expected. It started strong. Elizabeth...
Audiobook. Excellent. You can tell it's an early work of Perry's but very readable nevertheless, if perhaps a little predictable. It does have the feel of setting up for a sequel, but I haven't read enough of Perry to know if that's the case.Addendum 6/28/09 See the sequel: Sleeping Dogs
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