Frumious Bandersnatch (87th Precinct) - Softcover

McBain, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439194335 ISBN 13: 9781439194331

Publisher: Gallery Books, 2010

Synopsis

The kidnapping was audacious, and there were plenty of witnesses . . . But no one attending the dazzling launch party for up-and-coming pop idol Tamar Valparaiso knew what they were seeing when, halfway through her performance, masked men whisked the sexy young singer off a luxury yacht and into a waiting speedboat. Now, the evening that was supposed to send Tamar's debut album, Bandersnatch, skyrocketing with a million-dollar promotional campaign has instead kicked off a terrifying countdown for Steve Carella and the detectives of the 87th Precinct. Time is their enemy in the race to find Tamar's abductors - before the rising star is extinguished forever.

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Review:

When the hottest hip-hop star nobody's ever heard of is kidnapped right in the middle of the launch party for her new video, the crime lands on the desk of 87th precinct cop Steve Carella and makes Tamar Valparaiso famous overnight. This might be the point--or not. In the capable hands of a master storyteller such as Ed McBain, who breathes new life and not a little wit into every one of his police procedurals, even a somewhat hackneyed plot is fresh and interesting. And even if the cultural references to Lewis Carroll don't intrigue you, the progress of Fat Ollie's new romance with a voluptuous cop likely will. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com

Review:

"Entertainment Weekly" Top-dollar McBain...funny and adroit....Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment.

"USA Today" One of his most delectably cynical, out-and-out corrosive tales since he started writing the series in 1956....This is McBain as savagely satisfying as a very rare filet mignon.

"The Washington Post" Wry entertainment.

"Library Journal"McBain shows why he's still the best....[His] writing is tight, his characters believable. Just when readers think they have it all figured out, McBain proves that he is still capable of a shocker.

Marilyn Stasio "The New York Times" O frabjous day! Ed McBain takes us through the looking glass and into the surreal world of the music business....A riotous, if ultimately sobering, tale.

"Publishers Weekly"McBain remains as fresh and sharp-edged as ever.

"USA Today" [A] delectably cynical, out-and-out corrosive tale....As savagely satisfying as a very rare filet mignon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1439194335
• ISBN 13: 9781439194331
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384