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The Blind Pig
ISBN
9780802191250
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
09-12-2014
Bindwijze
Ebook EPUB
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Grove Atlantic
Auteur(s)
Jon A. Jackson

The Blind Pig

Reeks: The Detective Sergeant Mullheisen Mysteries

Jon A. Jackson
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  • A
  • taut
  • police
  • thriller
  • featuring
  • detective
  • “Fang”
  • Mulheisen—from
  • a
  • writer
  • hailed
  • as
  • “the
  • best-kept
  • secret
  • of
  • hard-boiled
  • crime
  • fiction
  • connoisseurs”
  • (The
  • New
  • York
  • Times
  • Book
  • Review).When
  • a
  • cop
  • guns
  • down
  • an
  • intruder
  • during
  • a
  • break-in,
  • it
  • seems
  • like
  • another
  • case
  • of
  • a
  • bad
  • guy
  • meeting
  • a
  • bad
  • end—until
  • the
  • owner
  • of
  • the
  • garage
  • being
  • burgled
  • is
  • revealed
  • to
  • be
  • Jerry
  • Vanni,
  • a
  • young
  • man
  • whose
  • trucking
  • empire
  • is
  • branching
  • out
  • into
  • juke
  • boxes
  • and
  • vending
  • machines.Detroit’s
  • Det.
  • Sgt.
  • “Fang”
  • Mulheisen
  • knows
  • that
  • Vanni’s
  • businesses
  • are
  • normally
  • controlled
  • by
  • the
  • mob—and
  • when
  • a
  • pair
  • of
  • gunmen
  • walks
  • into
  • a
  • bar
  • and
  • fills
  • one
  • of
  • Vanni’s
  • jukes
  • with
  • lead,
  • Mulheisen
  • is
  • sure
  • there’s
  • more
  • trouble
  • on
  • the
  • way.His
  • investigation
  • leads
  • him
  • into
  • an
  • ever-growing
  • criminal
  • enterprise
  • involving
  • gun-smuggling
  • Cubans,
  • a
  • million-dollar
  • heist,
  • and
  • a
  • gorgeous
  • woman
  • mixed
  • up
  • with
  • both.
  • It’s
  • the
  • kind
  • of
  • trouble
  • that
  • can
  • get
  • a
  • good
  • cop
  • killed
  • .
  • .
  • .“Few
  • color
  • the
  • police
  • procedural
  • with
  • such
  • bluesy
  • riffs—or
  • make
  • it
  • jump—the
  • way
  • Jackson
  • does.”
  • —Detroit
  • Free Press
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