A riveting tale of ruthless detectives, guilt, innocence, racism, drugs and hope - a book about the state of the drug problem in America as well as a tight, captivating and vivid murder mystery.
Klappentext
Rocco Klein, veteran homicide detective, has had enough of life on the edge. When a warm summer night brings yet another drug-related murder, he has no sense that the case is anything special. A young black man steps forward to confess but a little digging reveals that he's never been in any kind of trouble, whereas his half-brother, Strike, runs a crew of street-corner coke dealers 'clockers' in a nearby housing project. Soon Rocco is sure that Strike is the real killer and suddenly Rocco's appetite for the job is back. With a vengeance.
Biografie
Richard Price wurde 1949 in der Bronx geboren. Bisher hat er acht Romane veröffentlicht, zuletzt erschien "Cash", ein Spiegelbestseller und Platz 1 der Krimiwelt-Bestenliste. Price verfaßte zahlreiche Drehbücher für Filme von und mit Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino und Paul Newman. 2007 gewann Price den Edgar Award für seine Arbeit an der hoch gelobten TV-Serie "The Wire", für die er monatelang bei der Polizei recherchierte. Er lebt in New York.
