When the dust settles, McKnight is one of the police chief's lead suspects. But he's about to discover how dark this conspiracy truly isor how close to guilt he actually stands.. Worse, one of the other card players has the same idea, and he has no qualms about exercising some vigilante justice of his own. Now, Alex k
| Title | : | North of Nowhere: An Alex McKnight Novel (Alex McKnight Novels) |
| Author | : | Steve Hamilton |
| Rating | : | 4.93 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250029244 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-5-8 |
| Language | : | English |
When the dust settles, McKnight is one of the police chief's lead suspects. But he's about to discover how dark this conspiracy truly isor how close to guilt he actually stands.. Worse, one of the other card players has the same idea, and he has no qualms about exercising some vigilante justice of his own. Now, Alex knows he is the only one who can uncover the truth. Now, in North of Nowhere, he returns to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where former Detroit cop Alex McKnight has learned that wherever money goes, envy isn't far behind.After a game of cards turns into a professional heist, Alex McKnight finds himself lying facedown on the floor with a gun to the back of his head. "I really like his main character, Alex McKnight, and I'm ready to revisit Paradise, Michigan."James PattersonNew York Times Bestselling Author of Die a Stranger
Steve Hamilton's novels have won the mystery world's most prestigious awards
The pace is brisk, the episodes often humorous, and the tale brims with an infectious reverence for its natural setting ("God help me, on a summer night when the sun is going down, it is the most beautiful place on earth"). Kingston Pierce. If Hammett moved the detective story from the drawing room into the mean streets, Hamilton has proved that the north woods have their own potential for homicidal intrigue. But instead, he goes after the gunmen, along the way swapping sucker punches with Vargas, shaking down his former detective partner (who videotaped the thieves' escape), and discovering that even his friends harbor secrets that could get them all killed. Now, McKnight
really has reason to feel sorry for himself. This fourth McKnight outing (after 2001's
The Hunting Wind) is a fine showcase for Hamilton's lithesome prose. That Steve Hamilton has won a following by writin
This is a user-friendly book that can be read cover to cover or as a reference book, depending upon the readiness and current need of the reader. There are also very good descriptions of possibilities of what life will be like in the future at every tech level. Wohlleben is not a vegetarian, because experience has taught him that plants are no less alive, intelligent, and sacred than animals. It is woefully (dis)organized and, for my money, too informal. Today, I'm giving you your first journals, too, so that you can record other things. This book takes a different approach to the many others which use FSA photos, here you will not see many of those well-known images of poverty in rural areas, the effects of land erosion, the plight of Southern sharecroppers, not even the greatest FSA photo of all (in my view) Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother but instead a comprehensive and wonderful showing of the ordinary and everyday in American life from 1935 to 1943.All these fascinating photos are divided into eight sections, City Life, Hard Work, Hometowns, Hill Towns, Coal Towns, Family Farms, Hard Times and Amusements. It's been very helpful for my auditions. The majority of these short stories don't lose sight of the goal here but do so in an intelli
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