Walker works the case, “sorting out the lies from the half-truths,” never stopping to text or tweet. And nobody does old-school, hard-boiled dick like Estleman. Old pals John Alderdyce (dapper “special consultant” to the Detroit police) and Barry Stackpole (muckraking reporter) are both on hand to lend a hand, both raging in their own ways against the dying of the light, and an uneasy alliance with a disgraced cop is struck, but this is Walker’s show all the way. Undeterred, Walker decides to poke around, just a little.and all hell breaks loose. Walker is skeptical, and April’s father, Chester, a powerful TV producer who managed to parlay his daughter’s death into Cutthroat Dogs, a long-running, heavy-breathing, true-crime reality show, remains firmly (and professionally) convinced justice was done. Except that Chrys believes Dan is innocent, and worries that, after 19 years in prison, her brother is losing it. Seeking adventure in the Old West, eighteen-year-old Jeff Curry joins an elderly hider on the trail of the last of the buffalo, a quest that becomes a manhunt when the two men come to the aid of an Indian framed for murder. Chrys’ older brother Dan was charged with her murder and sent to prison, and that was that. Enter terms or ISBN number you wish to find More Search Options. Select type of book search you would like to make. Sign In Register Help You have items in your cart. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Sure, he’s getting on in years (and well aware of it), he’s still cranky as hell, he still drives a gas guzzler “camouflaged with dents and rust,” and he still craves a smoke every now and then, but he lives and breathes the sweat and dirt of now, viewing the world with a jaundiced eye and a life of experience under his belt.Ī chance encounter at a bank (okay, he shot a guy) leads Walker to his newest client, cashier Chrys Corbeil, who wants him to look into the death of University of Detroit student April Goss, who was found dead in her bathtub 20 years ago. Find The Hider by Estleman, Loren D at Biblio. Walker’s still as unapologetically retro as ever (I was shocked to discover he even has a cellphone), but it would be churlish (and wrong) to pin Walker down as yesterday’s man. Motor City Blue, the series debut, rolled off the showroom floor more than 40 years ago, and Cutthroat Dogs marks Walker’s 30th novel-length appearance. So, while plenty of newer, shinier models have come and gone, wasting away in literary scrapyards or stripped for spare parts, Estleman (and Walker) just keep on keeping on, Motown’s enduring gift to the genre. The author’s been pounding fenders in the Gumshoe Garage for decades. A young hunter and an old hider tracked the last one through what remained of the frontier. Estleman’s Detroit private eye Amos Walker is something of a classic. Targeted by both Congress and the Mob, Jay may end up the victim of his own success - unless he can write his way to a happier ending.Like the ancient Cutlass he drives, Loren D. Meanwhile, as Hollywood comes calling, the entire industry also comes under fire from censorious politicians out to tame the paperback jungle in the name of public morality. He prides himself on the authenticity of his work, however, which means picking the brains of some less than reputable characters, including an Irish gangster who wants a cut of the profits - or else. Although scorned by the critics, the tawdry drugstore novels sell like hotcakes - or so Jacob is assured by the enterprising head of Blue Devil Books, a pioneer in paperback publishing, known for its two-fisted heroes and underclad cover girls.Īs "Jack Holly," Jacob finds success as the author of scandalously bestselling crime novels. If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels, offering cheap excitement for the common man and woman. Estleman, 2005, Thorndike Press edition, in English. But the old man claimed to have tracked the last of the mighty beasts all the way from Arizona to Oregon, where buffalo hadnt been. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. To eighteen-year-old Jeff Curry, the old hider - and his vision of a lone buffalo migrating north - was something of a myth, a ghost from the past stalking a dream. A brand new historical thriller from a Grand Master: lurid paperback covers promised sex and danger, but what went on behind the scenes was nearly as spicy as the adventures between the covers.ġ946.
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