Everything but the Squeal - Hardcover

Hallinan, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0453006949 ISBN 13: 9780453006941

Publisher: New American Library, 1990

Synopsis

Private investigator Simeon Grist must locate young Aimee Sorrell, kidnapped and thrown into a child prostitution ring on the seedy streets of Los Angeles

About this title

About the Author:

Timothy Hallinan is the Edgar and Macavity Award-nominated author of over a dozen widely praised books, including the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers and the Junior Bender series. In 2010 he conceived and edited an e-book of original short stories by twenty mystery writers, Shaken: Stories for Japan, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Japanese disaster relief.

From Publishers Weekly:

Simeon Grist, seen before in The Four Last Things , is an up-to-date private eye, a hip survivor of the Woodstock Generation bemused by current L.A. life. He's also a bit seedy, drinking too much and backsliding into cigarette smoking, with a wry outlook and heart of gold that keep him squarely in the hardboiled Hammett-Chandler tradition. Hired to find a 13-year-old runaway who left Kansas to become a Hollywood star, Simeon soon finds himself mired in L.A.'s seamy underworld of teenage hustlers, pimps and all-around losers. Using as decoys his teenage godchild Jessica and a young computer whiz smitten by her, Simeon uncovers a vast interstate ring involving a talent agency, a bent cop and high-tech kiddy-sex. While providing a nasty new meaning for a computer "menu" and some scenes not for the squeamish, Hallinan employs skillful pacing, L.A. color and Simeon's attractive persona to grip readers right through the gory climax and somewhat reassuring ending.
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About this edition

• Publisher: New American Library
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0453006949
• ISBN 13: 9780453006941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352