Barking Dogs: A Mitch Helwig Book - Softcover

Green, Terence M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604502541 ISBN 13: 9781604502541

Publisher: Phoenix Pick, 2010

Synopsis

*** "A real page-turner... Not to be missed." - Locus *** Mitch Helwig is a cop who has gone over the edge. He's got a Barking Dog-an infallible, illegal lie-detector, worn under street clothes - and he's tired of being lied to. He's a criminal's worst nightmare. **** "The near-future cop-thriller is a growing sub-genre, in which old-time heroes walk the dark and subtly altered mean streets of a cityscape we can all identify from Blade Runner. Barking Dogs is the first novel to turn Toronto into one of those darkly menacing cities." -The Toronto Star ****

About this title

About the Author:

Terence M. Green is a school teacher in Toronto

From Publishers Weekly:

Cued in by a character who has written a dissertation on Philip K. Dick, readers will recognize the plight of the protagonist as similar to that of one of the late writer's decent men bewildered at the world fragmenting around him. The brutality and chaos of modern life finally get to honest Toronto cop Mitch Helwig in 1999 when his partner is murdered. Obtaining a tiny, infallible lie detector and an illegal laser gun, Mitch becomes judge, jury and executioner of punks and hoods as he stalks the city's criminal kingpin. This vigilante drama, slick and efficient though it may be, is really the stuff of Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies. It never fulfills the promise of either the title's lie detector or of the likable, beleaguered characters.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix Pick
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1604502541
• ISBN 13: 9781604502541
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190