Downriver (The Amos Walker Series #9) - Hardcover

Estleman, Loren D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395410738 ISBN 13: 9780395410738

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1988

Synopsis

Amos Walker investigates when, at Detroit's Marianne Motors, Commodore Stutch's takeover plans, Timothy Marianne's ambitions, and Edith Marianne's machinations collide with an innovative stock swindle and an ex-con

About this title

About the Author:

Loren D. Estleman has written more than seventy novels and has won Shamus Awards for detective fiction, Spur Awards for Western fiction, and Western Heritage Awards. The Western Writers of America has awarded Estleman the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contribution to Western Literature. He lives with his wife, author Deborah Morgan, in central Michigan.

From Publishers Weekly:

The eighth Amos Walker novel (Motor City Blue) may not have an especially surprising chief villain, but Estleman is still in the top of the class of private-eye storytellers. Here Walker's client is Richard DeVries, fresh out of prison after a 20-year stretch for arson and armored-car robbery during the 1967 Detroit riots. DeVries, who's black, says he was framed for a murder committed during the robbery, and Walker believes him. DeVries also considers the $200,000 never found after the robbery as his due: "I paid for it, and now it's mine." He identifies a rising auto executive as the "revolutionary" who got him to throw the fire-bomb. Soon Walker finds himself involved with a hotshot, would-be car magnate, his "ex-model" wife and a centenarian auto pioneer. By the violent ending, Walker has uncovered a computer scam and some ugly, 20-year-old secrets. Estleman's colorful characters, crackling dialgoue, rich plot, authentic Detroit setting and throwaway humoras usualwork very well.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0395410738
• ISBN 13: 9780395410738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210