A Gift For The Little Master

Gray, John MacLachlan

ISBN 10: 0679310673 / ISBN 13: 9780679310679

Published by Random House Canada, Toronto, 2000

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| Very fine in VF dustjacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Gift For The Little Master
• Publisher: Random House Canada, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679310673
• ISBN 13: 9780679310679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • B.C. Writers
  • CanLit

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Synopsis

A Gift For the Little Master releases the reader into a nightmarish west coast city. By day the city is a crush of traffic -- a place where only bike couriers move freely. At night the city becomes the haunt of criminals and lost souls -- a place frequented by nightcrawling freelance media scanning police channels for saleable stories.

Delores is a nightcrawler blessed and cursed with a ruthless curiosity and a perpetually stoned TV crew. Violent death in the street is just a service industry providing her with the next clip -- her only goal until she becomes the target of a phone stalker.  Eli is a bike courier gliding between his unknown history and unknowable future, until he finds himself the target of a white 4-Runner with a vicious case of road rage.

Slicing a path through the city is a serial killer with a penchant for Nietzsche and a great place to hide. And tracking the trail of the killer is Turner, a vigilante cop with policing skills that would not be out of place in a South American death squad. As the hunt winds its way through the city, Turner finds the investigation manipulated by an unseen hand -- one that appears to have ties with both Eli and Delores.

With its echoes of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Charles Dickens, A Gift For the Little Master takes the genre of thriller and thrusts it headlong into the twenty-first century.

About the Author

John MacLachlan Gray is a writer-composer-performer for the stage, television, film, radio and print. He is best known for his stage musicals, including the phenomenally successful Billy Bishop Goes to War and for his satirical work on CBC TV's The Journal. Gray is the recipient of many awards, including a Governor General's Medal, the Gordon Montador Award, Dora Mavor Moore awards, a Golden Globe and a National Magazine Award. Currently he writes a weekly column on cultural politics for the Vancouver Sun. Gray lives in Vancouver with his wife and two sons.