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Lullaby Town
Paperback
Main Details
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Lullaby Town
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Robert Crais
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback | | Pages:320 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 183,Width 111 |
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| Category/Genre | Crime and mystery |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780752817002
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Orion Publishing Co
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| Imprint |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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| Publication Date |
1 April 1999 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Peter Alan Nelsen is a super-successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on the road to fame. It's the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep, except that when Cole actually finds Nelsen's ex-wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions - a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family and a psychokiller who is the son of the godfather. When the unpredictable Nelsen charges in, an explosive situation blows sky-high.
Author Biography
Robert Crais is the author of ten Elvis Cole novels and three standalone thrillers, including HOSTAGE, which was made into a major film starring Bruce Willis. Crais has won numerous awards, and lives in L.A.
ReviewsKirkus Review US:Lullaby Town is Chelam, Connecticut, where L.A. shamus Elvis Cole (The Monkey's Raincoat, 1987 - not reviewed) goes in search of Karen Shipley, divorced ten years earlier by boyish filmmaker Peter Alan Nelsen, who's since developed deep pockets (courtesy of a string of action hits beginning with Chainsaw) and a conscience of sorts. Just when it looks like EMs has found Karen and her son, Toby, all too easily, Karen turns out to be laundering money for the Mafia, and the story takes off like a two-stage rocket. It'll take all of Elvis's wise-guy savvy to pry Karen loose from those other wise-guys without condemning her to the witness-protection program or the East River. Elvis is as sharp as a West Coast Spenser, but without Speaser's nasty/noble attitudinizing - and this story is pure pleasure from the very first page. (Kirkus Reviews)
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