Don't blink / Do not blink.
Patterson, James, 1947-
Don't blink / Do not blink. James Patterson & Howard Roughan. - London : Century, 2010. - 387 p. ; 24 cm.
New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons - the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas - on both sides of the law. Back off - or die - is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own. Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.
9780099553724 9781846054730 9780316036238 0316036234 9781846054723 1846054729 1846054737
2009034435
Assassination--Investigation--Fiction.
Lawyers--Crimes against--Fiction.
Journalists--Fiction.
Gangsters--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
PS3566.A822 / D66 2010
813/.54
Don't blink / Do not blink. James Patterson & Howard Roughan. - London : Century, 2010. - 387 p. ; 24 cm.
New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons - the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas - on both sides of the law. Back off - or die - is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own. Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.
9780099553724 9781846054730 9780316036238 0316036234 9781846054723 1846054729 1846054737
2009034435
Assassination--Investigation--Fiction.
Lawyers--Crimes against--Fiction.
Journalists--Fiction.
Gangsters--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
PS3566.A822 / D66 2010
813/.54