Gas City
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Victoria | Available |
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Subject |
Serial murders > Fiction. Police chiefs > Fiction. Mafia > Fiction. Power (Social sciences) > Fiction. |
Genre |
Noir fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780765319562
- ISBN: 076531956X
- Physical Description 299 pages
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Forge." Map on endpapers. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 27.95 |
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Summary
Gas City
Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces-greed and corruption, ambition and desire-run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.  A power struggle-between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp, and media reporters looking for a big story-turns what has been a minor dispute into a desperate struggle for survival.  Setting this drama in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an oil company, Estleman, with an unerring eye for telling detail and an ear for dialogue that reveals the secret desires of his characters, crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption, a stunning portrait of the human condition.