Stone City - Softcover

Smith, Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9024648890 ISBN 13: 9789024648894

Publisher: Simon Schuster, 1990

Synopsis

In a prison of youthful hard-core criminals, a college professor convicted of killing a young girl while driving drunk teaches other inmates reading skills. A series of killings prompts officials to coerce Bauman to track down the killer. His quest takes readers into the web of corruption that is inherent in a big state prison.

About this title

About the Author:

Mitchell Smith served with the Army Intelligence in Berlin before embarking on a writing career. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

From Library Journal:

This gripping novel is many things. On one level it is a page-turning murder mystery. On another it is almost a sociological study of prison life, its rites and rituals, its racial antagonisms and its power ploys, its intimidations and its deprivations. On another level, a large unnamed Midwestern prison serves as a metaphor for contemporary America, festering with evils and dreaming of innocence. In that prison two inmates have been murdered and a former history professor, jailed for killing a girl in a drunken driving accident, is forced by the different coercive pressures of the prison authorities and the inmate kingpin to find out who is the killer. Graphic and searing, an unflinching, harrowing vision of hell, this is a fine novel with strong best-seller potential.
- Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon Schuster
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 9024648890
• ISBN 13: 9789024648894
• Binding: Paperback