Balzic has just 25 cops to watchdog 15,000 civilians and a new unexpected menace. Witnesses report a small number of heavily armed commandos rappelling out of a helicopter. Rocksburg may not have much, but someone is willing to deploy a small private army to get it. They call it privatization. But Balzic's job is to protect his city--and his city is not for sale.
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Balzic has just 25 cops to watchdog 15,000 civilians and a new unexpected menace. Witnesses report a small number of heavily armed commandos rappelling out of a helicopter. Rocksburg may not have much, but someone is willing to deploy a small private army to get it. They call it privatization. But Balzic's job is to protect his city--and his city is not for sale.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Ripped/damaged jacket. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition. Ex-library book with stamps on the first page, it is also likely to have a small shelf number sticker on the spine.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Mario Balzic title. "Only a few crime writers, Joseph Hansen among them, have risked letting their sleuths age gracefully and/or brought their series to a definitive end. Here Constantine caps the long, bitter career of Mario Balzic, his pragmatic Pennsylvanian police chief, with a hard-earned, all-night retirement party. Balzic has kept the peace in the town of Rocksburg since his 1972 introduction in The Rocksburg Railroad Murders. Now 65, with an old geezer's face looking back from the mirror and his wife's mind on Florida, Mario is told by the mayor that five cops have to be cut from the force. Outraged and frustrated at having to decide who to let go, he himself remains all cop; even drinking with his pals at Muscotti's bar, his cop's ear takes in the gossip and tales of political maneuvering that bespeak a world more morally complex than he can stomach. The mystery revolves mainly around paramilitary types seen stomping around the outskirts of town, practicing jumps from a helicopter and markedly not answering Mario's very hostile questions. But this elegiac swansong of a working-class cop is as much about loyalty, urban blight and aging's nasty tricks as it is about detecting. Constantine's perfectly pitched dialogue and inimitable characters are as sharply depicted as in any of the series' ten previous titles. So long, Mario, you're one of a kind and we'll miss you."--Publishers Weekly.
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Fine in Fine jacket. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. As Mario Balzic prepares for his retirement andforced to lay off a number of ofiicers, he faces a new menace that threatens all of Rocksburg. Light munping ro spine ends, rubbing to front flap.
