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 John Katzenbach:"The Shadow Man"
Description
Simon Winter was once one of the best cops on the Miami homicide beat,
but now he's just another retired guy with no relatives. He sticks his
trusty gun in his mouth--and just as he's about to squeeze the trigger,
his neighbor Sophie Millstein pounds on his door. Sophie, a
Holocaust survivor, says she's just caught sight of Der Schattenmann
(the Shadow Man), who hunted down the Jews of Berlin. He was a
"catcher," a Jewish man who worked for the Gestapo. Once you glimpsed
the Shadow Man, nobody ever saw you again. But Sophie just saw him,
she's sure of it, right here in Miami! Simon doubts it, but
when Sophie is murdered, he doesn't believe that Leroy "Hightops"
Jefferson, the crack addict seen sprinting out of her apartment with
her jewelry, did the deed. Why was Sophie's cat strangled? And when
another Holocaust survivor dies, why does his suicide note omit one
letter of his wife's name? Did he write it at gunpoint? Simon and young
sleuths Walter Robinson and Espy Martinez hunt the Shadow Man, and even
Leroy winds up showing a streak of heroism. Besides a clever premise, Katzenbach--a Miami Herald
veteran--packs a lot of vivid local color into his Edgar-nominated
mystery about a town where drug killings are so common the cops call
them "felony littering." But the characters are simplistic and the
narrative pace sluggish by comparison with Katzenbach's World War II
POW murder mystery, Hart's War. --Tim Appelo
Product details:
Hardcover 468 pages
Language:English
ISBN-10 : 0345386302
ISBN-13: 978-0345386304
Product Dimensions: 7.1X4.1X1.1
Shipping Weight: 0.5 ounces
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