RAINBOW DRIVE

Throp, Roderick

ISBN 10: 0671499815 / ISBN 13: 9780671499815

Published by Summit Books, NY, 1986

About this Item

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (Stated, Number Line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. 8vo (6.5 x 9.5"). 394, (4) pp. Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over gray boards, gilt (silver) lettering on spine. Red endpapers. This is a new, unopened copy. Both the volume and the dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition, aside from a remainder mark on the bottom edge. AS NEW/AS NEW. Mike Gallagher heads up Homicide as acting head of Hollywood Division when five people are murdered on Rainbow D rive in Laurel Canyon and a helicopter shows up at the scene before anyone could possible have called it to come. The only reason Mike knows about the crime that early in the game is that he was keeping a lady warm in bed right across the street. Mike knows something foul is in the works when the police delay calling an ambulance even though someone who is still alive may need help. Further, the y tell him to keep away. But he can't ignore the chaos that's caused by a rash of new and gruesome murders, and he begins to think someone in his own group may be implicated. Not giving up propels him I nto a chase for the killers, while he in turn is being hunted. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 4249

Bibliographic Details

• Title: RAINBOW DRIVE
• Publisher: Summit Books, NY
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671499815
• ISBN 13: 9780671499815
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition Thus. 1.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Novels, Poetry & Literature
  • Mystery & Suspense

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Synopsis

After five people are murdered in Laurel Canyon, and his partner, Dan, is also killed, Mike Gallagher, acting head of homicide, Hollywood Division, discovers that someone very close to him may be involved

Reviews

Somewhere inside this sprawling 700-page novel, there is a solid police procedural trying to break out. Thorp, best known for The Detective, has written a desultory story about the fallout from an apparent drug murder in Los Angeles that ultimately points to corruption at the top of the L.A.P.D., corruption that becomes an obsession for homicide detective Mike Gallagher when his longtime partner is murdered. With the murder, the novel finally begins to move forward with some energy and passion, but this comes very late in the game. Although Gallagher, a tough guy with a soft heartprototype of the new herois a strong character, Thorp has filled the book with many less-memorable actors, especially an endless array of indistinguishable villains. There is a lot of good action writing as well as some interesting police work going on here, but these tend to get buried in Thorp's massive, complex scheme. 90,000 first printing; BOMC Alternate.
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