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Downtown
Downtown
Downtown
Audiobook7 hours

Downtown

Written by Ed McBain

Narrated by David Regal

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

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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
Release dateMar 20, 2009
ISBN9781423385882
Downtown
Author

Ed McBain

Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005). Debuting in 1956, the popular 87th Precinct is one of the longest running crime series ever published, featuring over fifty novels, and is hailed as “one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” McBain was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986 by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    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."
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    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.