Motor City Blue

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Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453220481

<DIV><B>The first book in the long-running Amos Walker Mysteries introduces the hard-boiled Detroit detective as he searches for an aging mobster&rsquo;s missing adopted daughter</B><BR /><BR /> Private eye Amos Walker is a Vietnam veteran who was thrown out of the Police Academy for punching a fellow cadet. He&rsquo;s a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Walker&rsquo;s latest case comes by way of ex-mobster Ben Morningstar, who&rsquo;s been living out his retirement in Phoenix while raising Maria, the daughter of a long-ago murdered friend. Only now, Maria is missing and the gangster needs Walker&rsquo;s help. But the trail has gone cold&mdash;the only clue is a faded pornographic snapshot.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Never one to give up, Walker witnesses the kidnapping of a former Vietnam friend and solves the murder of a young black labor leader while slugging his way to a solution.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Fans of Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard&rsquo;s crime fiction will find Estleman&rsquo;s lean prose, retro style, and tough-guy hero irresistible.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.<BR /> &#160;</DIV>