Riding the Snake - Hardcover

Cannell, Stephen J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688158056 ISBN 13: 9780688158057

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1998

Synopsis

When his younger brother, a prominent lawyer and political power broker, turns up dead, L.A. playboy Wheeler Cassidy joins forces with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful but troubled cop, to investigate and uncovers a violent Chinese criminal conspiracy reaching to the highest levels of American government. 110,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen J Cannell is the bestselling author of psychochiller FINAL VICTIM and con-trick thriller KING CON. He is also the creator or co-creator of over forty television shows, including THE ROCKFORD FILES and THE A-TEAM. He currently heads the Cannell Studios.

From the Inside Flap:

idy, charming prankster and scion of a wealthy Beverly Hills family, has never done much with his life except play golf, drink, and seduce other men's wives.  But after his politically connected brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous journey to find himself and the Chinese gangsters who murdered the only member of his family he ever really loved.  Along the way, he teams up with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful African-American detective raised in South Central and now assigned to the L.A.P.D.  Asian Crime Task Force.  Born just fifteen minutes from each other but worlds apart, the two make a combustible pair.  

Together, they face the violence and corruption that stretches from Hong Kong's most notorious criminal Triad to the highest reaches of American government.  It's an international conspiracy of huge proportions which will take Wheeler and Tanisha halfway around the world and into the most dangerous adventu

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0688158056
• ISBN 13: 9780688158057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 383