From an Edgar Award-nominated author, a small-town chief of police is pushed to his limits while going up against a local crime syndicate. The near-fatal stabbing of Armand "Fat Manny" Manditti, a numbers runner working for the local mob boss, has chief of police Mario Balzic in a bind. Neither Fat Manny nor his brother Tullio are talking, probably because they are putting together a revenge plan that will soon turn the small rust-belt town of Rocksburg into a morgue. Unless Balzic can come up with the perp before they ...
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From an Edgar Award-nominated author, a small-town chief of police is pushed to his limits while going up against a local crime syndicate. The near-fatal stabbing of Armand "Fat Manny" Manditti, a numbers runner working for the local mob boss, has chief of police Mario Balzic in a bind. Neither Fat Manny nor his brother Tullio are talking, probably because they are putting together a revenge plan that will soon turn the small rust-belt town of Rocksburg into a morgue. Unless Balzic can come up with the perp before they do. It's the kind of fix that can get even the most conscientious cop in trouble. . . . "Constantine is a marvelous writer. May Mario Balzic thrive." -- The New York Times "K.C. Constantine is one of the most talked about mystery writers on the American scene. Constantine has a smooth style, and his plots are loaded with unexpected twists and turns." Boston Globe "Constantine writes a terrific mystery." Providence Journal
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st ed. Fine book with just a touch of sunning along the top edge in a fine dust jacket, un-clipped. [$6.95 price is still intact] The fourth novel in Constantine's widely-acclaimed mystery series set in Rocksburg, a small industrial town in Pennsylvania, and featuring Police Chief Mario Balzic.
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. 185 pages. First Edition. The reclusive writer's fourth Mario Balzic mystery set in fictional Rocksburg, Pennsylvania. A bit of sunning to extreme edges of boards, else fine in fine dustjacket.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Toning along the edges and bowed boards else very good in a very good dustwrapper with light spotting and bumps on the spine. Signed by the author.
