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Published Jul 2011
272 pages
Genre: Mysteries
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Much like author Loren D. Estleman, Detroit private investigator Amos Walker has long been reluctant to embrace technology - he only recently got his first cell phone. Walker is hired to do a twenty-first-century job - recovering HDTV converter boxes stolen from a retailer whose shop also does vintage resale business. Before long, the case turns old school: both a suspect and the man who lost the boxes are murdered, and Walker ends up working with both the local police and the feds. The converter boxes were being used to smuggle high-grade heroin that's been killing off junkies left and right, and it's up to Walker to track down the missing dope.
Old friends and even older enemies resurface before this story is done, and Walker has to take a few beatings if he wants to find out who has been trafficking the drugs and bring the crooks to justice. This old dog still has a few new tricks, and there hasn't been a case yet that Walker couldn't crack.
"Starred Review. Estleman demonstrates that the art of inserting a Philip Marlowe-esque hero into modern times is alive and well." - Publishers Weekly
"While this mystery can be read as a stand-alone, it is more enjoyable when the reader is familiar with the cast of characters from past adventures.... [T]his would strongly appeal to... authors of hard-boiled detective fiction." - Library Journal
"Could it get any more old school? Walker trudges through an array of clues, snitches, thugs, and victims on his way to a painful solution. Estleman has piled up enough literary awards to add a wing to his home. Read this classic yet modern example of the hard-boiled detective novel, and you'll begin to understand why." - Booklist
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Photo: Deborah Morgan
Loren D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. Winner of three Shamus Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, four Spur Awards and many other literary prizes. He lives outside Detroit with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.
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