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"Downtown" starts on Christmas Eve as Florida orange grower Michael Barnes, in New York on business, runs afoul of bogus cops, thieves, the mob, and a slimy movie producer. McBain piles on the action and absurdity at a furious pace as Barnes sinks deeper and deeper into the worst New York has to offer. McBain has always been adept at infusing his hard-boiled fiction with a sardonic humor that borders on the ludicrous. In "Downtown," he proves he can still walk that tightrope as he balances the hilarity of Barnes' situation with a lean, hard-hitting narrative style.
In fact, McBain's humor is so deliberately distracting, you don't realize it when he turns deadly serious. Michael Barnes may be bounced from one jam to another, but he too has a dark side, like most McBain characters. When pushed enough, he too becomes as deadly as his foes and as hard-boiled as any Raymond Chandler creation. "Downtown" is another example of Ed McBain at his best. Highly recommended.
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Downtown: A Novel (Eagle large print)
May 1992, John Curley & Assoc
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Downtown
June 1992, Chivers North Amer
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Downtown
June 1991, Dove Entertainment Inc
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Downtown (Bookcassette(r) Edition)
September 1, 1991, Bookcassette
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Downtown
September 1, 1991, Unabridged Library Edition
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September 8, 2012 | Edited by VacuumBot | Updated format 'Audio Cassette' to 'Audio cassette'; Removed author from Edition (author found in Work) |
April 27, 2011 | Edited by OCLC Bot | Added OCLC numbers. |
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