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Cranks and Shadows: A Mario Balzic Novel
de Constantine, K. C
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bien/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0892965436
- ISBN 13
- 9780892965434
- Librería
-
Newport, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
U.S.A: Mysterious Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Clean, bright, solid book that looks like new except for minimal library stamps, no pockets, no cards. Quarter black paper with gilt titles, blue paper covered boards, clean and unmarked. Tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Internals as new. Mario Balzic is Chief od Police in Rocksburg PA, a city with a shrinking population and an increasing number of boarded up shops. The city is broke and the Chief faces layoffs in an already reduced police force. Privatization has hit the city hard. But what's this? A heavily armed, camouflaged group of commandos rappelling out of helicopters into the city?? Rocksburg may not have much left but someone wants it enough to deploy a small private army to get it. Balzik must save his city. 314 pages. 6.6 x 9.3 inches. Mysterious Press, NY 1995.
Sinopsis
Cranks and Shadows is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh). Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, middle-aged, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.
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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 020692
- Título
- Cranks and Shadows: A Mario Balzic Novel
- Autor
- Constantine, K. C
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0892965436
- ISBN 13
- 9780892965434
- Editorial
- Mysterious Press
- Lugar de publicación
- U.S.A
- Fecha de publicación
- 1995
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Palabras clave
- POLICE; POLITICS; PENNSYLVANIA; BALZIC, MARIO (FICTITIOUS);
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction. Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Police;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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