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The Cross-Killer
by Montecino, Marcel; Marcel Montecino
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671678949
- ISBN 13
- 9780671678944
- Seller
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The Bronx, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York, London, et al.: Pocket Books/ A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1989. 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall. 579 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Bottom left corner of back cover. From Publishers Weekly: An unhealthy layer of smog hanging ominously over the streets of Los Angeles neatly sets the mood for this dark, gritty thriller. To punish police Lt. Jack Gold for a bust gone wrong, his superior pulls him off the homicide squad and reassigns the veteran officer to a low-profile task force looking into a rash of racist graffiti. Shifting a cigar from one corner of his foul mouth to the other, Gold takes to his new duties reluctantly until the street artist turns psychopathic killer. The sudden splashes of violence tend to be overplayed in this first novel, and characters lean toward caricature. Gold himself is the familiar tough-talking maverick with a bad past and a future that's not much better. His life is empty, his job is going nowhere, and, while his soft-hearted daughter reveres him, her witless husband brings a load of trouble crashing down on them one and all with his white-collar Hollywood drug deals. Montecino is at his best in laying down a series of strong subplots that gradually converge, gathering momentum all the way to a grisly finale.
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- Bookseller
- gearbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2iEd0038b
- Title
- The Cross-Killer
- Author
- Montecino, Marcel; Marcel Montecino
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671678949
- ISBN 13
- 9780671678944
- Publisher
- Pocket Books/ A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, London, et al.
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Fictional Novel, General & Adult Fiction, Fictional Crime, Mystery
- Size
- 12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall
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