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The Diehard

Published
Jan 1977
Main Genre
Police Procedural Police Procedural
Pages
264

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The explosive debut novel featuring hard-nosed cop "Fang" Mulheisen—from an author who "stands right up there with the best chroniclers of urban crime" (The New York Times).

 


The city of Detroit doesn't have many places anyone would exactly call "nice." But the exclusive enclave of Indian Village is an oasis of calm surrounded by urban blight. At least until a beautiful young heiress is murdered during a home robbery gone horribly wrong . . . if that really is what happened.


 


Detroit's Det. Sgt."Fang" Mulheisen isn't so sure. The coincidences of the case are just a bit too coincidental, the ruthlessness of the crime goes way beyond a punk thief looking for a quick score, and the victim's big-banker husband may owe some very bad people more than just money. What they want is blood. And Mulheisen may be the only man who can keep them from getting it.


 


With gritty detail, whip-smart dialogue, and street-level action, "the elaboration of the plot and the quality of the writing put The Diehard pretty close to the top of its class" (The New York Times Book Review).


 

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Jun 1993 Grove Press ISBN 087113537X
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Aug 2000 Grove Press ISBN 0802137075
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First Edition Feb 1977 Random House ISBN 0394410300
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Dec 2014 Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN 080219124X
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Dec 2014 Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN B00V8SSAXW
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