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    Downtown
    Downtown
    Downtown
    Audiobook7 hours

    Downtown

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by David Regal

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    About this audiobook

    Ed McBain, author of the bestselling 87th Precinct series, takes us "Downtown" in a bold departure of a novel that will have listeners cheering for a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York City.

    Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Manhattan bar with a couple of hours to kill. It's a couple of hours that almost kill him, as he's swindled, robbed, framed for murder, and hunted down by an assassin in one of the wildest, scariest, funniest, fastest twenty-four hours ever packed into one novel.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 20, 2009
    ISBN9781423385882
    Downtown
    Author

    Ed McBain

    Ed McBain, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, was also the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series (including the Edgar Award–nominated Money, Money, Money) to the bestselling novels written under his own name, Evan Hunter—including The Blackboard Jungle (now in a fiftieth anniversary edition from Pocket Books) and Criminal Conversation. Fiddlers, his final 87th Precinct novel, was recently published in hardcover. Writing as both Ed McBain and Evan Hunter, he broke new ground with Candyland, a novel in two parts. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He died in 2005. Visit EdMcBain.com.

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    • 4/5
      “He did not know this goddamn city where everyone seemed to be either a cop or a crook and all of them seemed to be crazy.”Michael Barnes is in NYC on business, and in the first few chapters, he is accused of stealing a ring, had his wallet emptied, has his rental car stolen, is held up at gun point, and is a suspect in a murder! AND, everyone he runs into seems to be named Charlie! It's a crazy, almost slap-sticky romp as Michael tries to prove his innocence and find out who is behind the set up. LOTS of funny dialogue! Intermixed with lots of flashbacks to his time in Vietnam, which aren't funny at all. But, like all McBain books I've read, the mix works, and the book is very enjoyable!"Mom? he would say. I'm alive, Mom.""I'm alive again."
    • 3/5
      One of the few McBain noverls I've read that doesn't feature Matthew Hope or the detectives of the 87th Precinct. Not all that good from a McBain perspective, but it was still well worth reading.