Blacklist - Sara Paretsky

Descriere Blacklist - Sara Paretsky

Paretsky returns with her heroine V.I. Warshawski in this The New York Times bestseller, deemed a complex, disturbing thriller by the Associated Press. This story of secrets and betrayals stretches across four generations--secrets that are political, social, sexual, financial, and all of them with the power to kill. \nV. I. Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction... \nA thoughtful, high-tension mystery.--The Washington Post Book World \n \nA genuinely exciting and disturbing thriller.--Chicago Tribune \n \nAs a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees to check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond--a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are quick to dismiss as a suicide. \n \nWhen the man's shattered family hires V. I. to investigate, she is sucked into a Gothic tale of sex, money, and power, leading her back to McCarthy-era blacklists and forward to some of the darker aspects of the Patriot Act. As V. I. finds herself penned in to a smaller and smaller space by an array of people trying to silence her, and before she can untangled the sordid truth, two more people will die--and V.I.'s own life will hang in the balance. \n\n

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Berkley Books

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EAN / GTIN

9780451209696

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1

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