Gas City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765319593)

Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces--greed and corruption, ambition and desire--run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.

A power struggle--between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp, and media reporters looking for a big story--turns what has been a minor dispute into a desperate struggle for survival.

Setting this drama, Gas City, in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an oil company, Estleman, with an unerring eye for telling detail and an ear for dialogue that reveals the secret desires of his characters, crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption, a stunning portrait of the human condition.

Author: Loren D. Estleman
ISBN-10: 0765319594
ISBN-13: 9780765319593
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2009
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d