Hard Time
by Paretsky, Sara
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385313632
- ISBN 13
- 9780385313636
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. First Edition with full number line. . 400 pages. A V.I. Warshawski Mystery, No. 9. Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the <I>Chicago Herald-Star,</I> forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. Stopping to help, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive. .
Synopsis
Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparable character V. I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994's Tunnel Vision. Hard Time is the work of a master--a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably Paretsky's best V.I. Warshawski novel yet. Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. Stopping to help, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive.
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 601308
- Title
- Hard Time
- Author
- Paretsky, Sara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385313632
- ISBN 13
- 9780385313636
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, WOMEN, SLEUTHS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective / Women Sleuths;
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