Splendid Executioner - Softcover

Downey, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804102171 ISBN 13: 9780804102179

Publisher: Ivy Books, 1987

Synopsis

When columnist Peter Killharney publishes a list of the ten worst New Yorkers, someone takes his choices seriously and begins to kill them one by one

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From Publishers Weekly

This is the debut of an exceptionally talented writer, but the story's effects are blunted by his boring reliance on basic Anglo-Saxonisms and sexual antics beyond the kinky, into the absurd. The chief character is bibulous Pete Killharney, a columnist on a Manhattan daily, Apple, which publishes his annual Hit List: names of prominent citizens who engage in shady activities. The current list includes a crooked official, a slumlord, a TV evangelist and the secret owner of Times Square sleaze joints. As the result of Killharney's latest "J'accuse," an unseen avenger begins killing the hypocrites and the columnist joins the police in hunting the murderer. The suspense is unremitting, keeping readers on the ragged edge with episodes of violence and close shaves. In the denouement, Downey does justice to his original plot, possibly inspired by revelations about cynical deals "in the public interest," between criminals and U.S. intelligence agencies.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivy Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0804102171
• ISBN 13: 9780804102179
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback