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The past catches up with detective Jack Devlin when an explosive letter from his father, a policeman who killed himself to avoid being tried for graft, surfaces just as he is assigned to investigate corruption in Boston's police force. A first novel. Reprint.
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Review:
"ƯA¨ stirring police thriller."
--The New York Times Book Review
"A TOUGH-GUY TALE THAT ALSO SUCCEEDS AS A TEAR-JERKER . . . Boston author Charles Kenney has joined the small fraternity of crime writers whose insights into the undersides of their cities are as profound as their command of character."
--The Boston Herald
"A GIFTED NOVELIST . . . What drives this story is its accomplished portrait of a child struggling with the betrayal of parental suicide, and a most persuasive rendering of the power of faith."
--The New York Post
--The Boston Herald "A GIFTED NOVELIST . . . What drives this story is its accomplished portrait of a child struggling with the betrayal of parental suicide, and a most persuasive rendering of the power of faith."
--The New York Post From the Paperback edition.
About the Author:
--The New York Times Book Review
"A TOUGH-GUY TALE THAT ALSO SUCCEEDS AS A TEAR-JERKER . . . Boston author Charles Kenney has joined the small fraternity of crime writers whose insights into the undersides of their cities are as profound as their command of character."
--The Boston Herald
"A GIFTED NOVELIST . . . What drives this story is its accomplished portrait of a child struggling with the betrayal of parental suicide, and a most persuasive rendering of the power of faith."
--The New York Post
"From the Paperback edition."
"[A] stirring police thriller."
--The New York Times Book Review
"A TOUGH-GUY TALE THAT ALSO SUCCEEDS AS A TEAR-JERKER . . . Boston author Charles Kenney has joined the small fraternity of crime writers whose insights into the undersides of their cities are as profound as their command of character."
--The Boston Herald
"A GIFTED NOVELIST . . . What drives this story is its accomplished portrait of a child struggling with the betrayal of parental suicide, and a most persuasive rendering of the power of faith."
--The New York Post
"From the Paperback edition."
"[A] stirring police thriller."
--The New York Times Book Review
--The Boston Herald "A GIFTED NOVELIST . . . What drives this story is its accomplished portrait of a child struggling with the betrayal of parental suicide, and a most persuasive rendering of the power of faith."
--The New York Post From the Paperback edition.
Charles Kenney was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for fifteen years. He is also the author of Code of Vengeance (formerly titled Hammurabi's Code) and, most recently, The Last Man. He lives in Boston with his wife and two children.
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- PublisherFawcett Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0449002578
- ISBN 13 9780449002575
- BindingHardcover
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