Floater - Hardcover

Koenig, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670819832 ISBN 13: 9780670819836

Publisher: Viking, 1988

Synopsis

Vengeful Sheriff Buck White matches wits with the devilishly clever criminal, Ivan Norodny, as he tracks the man responsible for the murder of his ex-wife and investigates a series of disappearances and killings in Miami

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Review:

“[A] fast-paced book, well-plotted . . . A splendid procedural expressed in sharp, economical, yet sensitive prose.” —The New York Times Book Review “A dandy first novel, heavy shades of Elmore Leonard . . . Mordant humor, snappy dialogue, and frequent plot twists.” —Kirkus Reviews “An eerie, gripping tale . . . Cleverly plotted and filled with wonderfully drawn characters.” —Philadelphia Daily News

About the Author:

Joseph Koenig is an author of hard-boiled fiction. A former crime reporter, he won critical acclaim and an Edgar nomination for his first novel, Floater (1986), a grimly violent story of con men, cops, and killers in the Florida Everglades. His next two novels were Little Odessa (1988), a darkly comic tale of life in New York’s Ukrainian underworld, and Smugglers Notch (1989), a story of brutal murder in snowbound Vermont. Koenig’s fourth novel, the groundbreaking Brides of Blood (1993), won strong reviews for its elegant treatment of police procedure in Islamic Iran. For nearly two decades after Brides of Blood, Koenig did not publish. But in 2012 the pulp-style publishing house Hard Case Crime released his newest novel, False Negative, a rollicking mystery about a journalist who, like Koenig once did, writes for true-crime magazines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0670819832
• ISBN 13: 9780670819836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288