Jericho Man
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"IMAGINE IT AS BAD AS YOU CAN, SIR... AND THEN IMAGINE IT WORSE!"
What was once New York's proudest skyscraper is now a heap of ruins, littered with the bodies of the dead and the dying. Beyond it, like firecrackers on a string, the rest of the targets wait to be ignited, unless the demands of the Jericho Man are met.
The city hesitates. One second too long.
And the walls come tumbling down.
John Lutz
For more than forty years, John Lutz was one of the premier voices in contemporary hard-boiled fiction, producing dozens of novels and more than 250 short stories. His earliest success came with the Alo Nudger series, set in his hometown of St. Louis. Tropical Heat introduced Fred Carver, a Florida detective whom Lutz followed in ten novels. He later wrote five books in the Frank Quinn serial killer series. Lutz was a former president of the Mystery Writers of America, and his many honors include lifetime achievement awards from the Short Mystery Fiction Society and the Private Eye Writers of America. He died in 2021.
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