The big bad city

Description

The first thing you need to know about this city is that it is big. It is difficult to explain to someone who has never seen it. The next thing you need to know is that it's dangerous. Never mind the reassuring bulletins from the mayor's office; just watch the first ten minutes of the eleven o'clock news and you'll learn exactly what the people of this city are capable of doing to other people in this city. This week's city tabloids depict the face of a pretty, dead girl who lay sprawled near a park bench not seven blocks from the 87th precinct house, while the late night news reports on the latest exploits of The Cookie Boy, a professional thief who leaves a box of chocolate chip cookies behind after a score. Behind the scenes, detectives Carella and Brown soon discover that this is not your average dead girl, but one with an unusual past. As they piece together her secrets, detectives Meyer and Kling search Isola's pawnshops for items stolen by The Cookie Boy. While the detectives are investigating their cases, one of them is being stalked by the man who killed his father.

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Genres

• Fiction.

Other Editions

• The big bad city: a novel of the 87th PrecinctSimon & Schuster1999-01-01
• The big bad cityCompass Press1999-01-01
• The Big Bad CityHardcoverSimon1999-01-01
• The big bad citySimon & Schuster1999-01-01
• The big bad cityNew English Library1999-01-01
• The big bad cityIsis1999-01-01