Suspension - Brossura

Crabbe, Richard Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312284640 ISBN 13: 9780312284640

Casa editrice: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002

Riassunto

In the tense aftermath of the Civil War, the construction of the East River bridge becomes a target for a group of Southern partisans, led by a fanatical captain, as Detective Tom Braddock's investigation into a murder uncovers hints of the conspiracy and puts his own life in jeopardy. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Richard E. Crabbe has a 20-year career in advertising sales with Advance Publications, The New York Post, Times Mirror, and currently Time Warner. Suspension was penned substantially on the Staten Island ferry, commuting to Manhattan. He is a lifelong resident of Staten Island, where his wife Kim and three daughters, Chelsea, Amanda, and Rebecca have him happily outnumbered.

Product Description:

May 31, 1883, 3:55 p.m. Twenty thousand men, women, and children, their faces shining in the late afternoon sun, are strolling the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Brooklyn Bridge is open just a week, its promenade a magnet for the teeming masses of New York and Brooklyn. An engineering marvel of transcending beauty, the bridge is simply breathtaking. In precisely five minutes, it will fall. Seven desperate men, former Confederate soldiers turned saboteurs, have labored for years to destroy the bridge, which they saw as a symbol of hated Yankee supremacy. Sergeant Detective Tom Braddock is one step behind the conspirators. Working through a series of murderous dead-ends, Braddock has dogged the seven men from the cables of the bridge to the shadowy alleys of the Lower East Side and the back streets of Richmond, Virginia. Slowly, he has slowly drawn closer to the unthinkable truth, a truth that none can accept...

Su questa edizione

• Editore: St. Martin's Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312284640
• ISBN 13: 9780312284640
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 452