Adam Jordan wrote the best and worst articles of his journalistic career on the same day. The worst was bad enough to get him fired - but the best landed him a new job, penning lurid articles for "Real Detective" magazine, one of the last of the true-crime pulps. Only the case they've got him working on, involving a beauty pageant contestant found dead on an Atlantic City beach, is one some very powerful men would rather see covered up than covered. And if Adam keeps digging, he may find he's digging his own grave...
"Twenty years after "Brides of Blood", Koenig weighs in with another gritty, no-holds-barred, hard-boiled whodunit set in the 1950s. Gifted journalist Adam Jordan, too tired to attend a congressman's routine speech, fakes an article, only to learn later from his editor that the politician dropped dead before going on stage to deliver it. Now a pariah, Jordan manages only to land work with a seedy New York City true crime magazine, Real Detective. When he tries to solve the fetishistic strangulation murder of an attractive 22-year-old waitress found hog-tied on a Long Island beach, his probing leads him to more corpses and a narrow escape from death. Razor-sharp prose (e.g., "Wing's dreams were short on specifics until he was in New York with a knife in his pocket") and a fast-moving plot will please Mickey Spillane and Cornell Woolrich fans. With any luck, readers won't have to wait another 20 years for Koenig's next book." - "Publisher's Weekly"
Title: False Negative
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Joseph Koenig
ISBN 13: 9780857685803
ISBN 10: 0857685805
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Imprint: Titan Books Ltd
Publication Date: 1/08/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Crime & mystery
NBS Classification: Crime & Thriller
Dewey Classification:
813.54
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Height: 203mm
Width: 126mm
Thickness: 18mm
Weight: 227g