Synopsis
Years after he shared a night of passion with beautiful Vivian Horstmann, Vietnam vet and Chicago cab driver Cooper MacLeish finds himself investigating her murder when the woman falls twenty-three stories to her death. Reprint.
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About the Author
Sam Reaves has written seven Chicago-based crime novels, including the Cooper MacLeish series, the Dooley series and the stand-alone Mean Town Blues. As Dominic Martell he has penned a European-based suspense trilogy. Reaves has traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East but has lived in the Chicago area most of his life. He has worked as a teacher and a translator.
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"GRITTY...BRUTAL...FIERCER THAN THE WIND THAT KNIFES IN FROM LAKE MICHIGAN... A SMARTLY PACED MYSTERY, FULL OF TERSE, ADRENALIZED ACTION AND PUNCHY WRITING." People
A lifetime ago, Vietnam vet and Chicago cab driver Cooper MacLeish shared a night of passion with beautiful Vivian Horstmann. And now she's dead-- just another police statistic in a violent, heartless town. Though the cops call Vivian's long, cold fall from her twenty-third floor apartment window a suicide, Cooper has his doubts-- especially when a nameless killer lurking in the shadows is eager to silence the overly inquisitive cabby as permanently as possible. Now Cooper will need all his war-honed skills to survive in the urban jungle-- and to save Vivian's boy...a frightened teenager who might be his son.
"SMASHING...CREDIBLE...SATISFYING...NEW VOICES ARE ALWAYS WELCOME, AND SAM REAVES' FIRST MYSTERY IS AN EXEMPLARY BEGINNING." Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Cooper MacLeish, a Vietnam veteran turned Chicago cab driver, looks into the apparent suicide of a former lover in this impressive mystery debut.
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A LONG COLD FALL / SEE HOW SHE RUNS
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