The Scarecrow: 2 (Jack McEvoy) - Hardcover

Connelly, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316043672 ISBN 13: 9780316043670

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2009

Synopsis

Forced out of the "Los Angeles Times" amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent. Jack is soon running with his biggest story since The Poet""made his career years ago. He is tracking a killer who operates completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. Including Jack's.

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Review:

Besides supplying impeccable police and FBI procedural detail, and a (literally) breathless finale, Connelly uses McEnvoy to voice his anxiety at the present decline in heavyweight newspaper content and our obsession with half-digested breaking news. Michael Brandon's voice as the narrator fits Connelly's stark, dramatic writing like a glove fits a hand. (THE TIMES)

Book Description:

Jack McEvoy, hero of Connelly's breakthrough novel THE POET, returns in this major milestone in crime publishing. Abridged edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0316043672
• ISBN 13: 9780316043670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 672