The Strangler

The Strangler

Boston, 1963. A city on edge. On street corners, newsboys hawk the shocking headline: KENNEDY IS DEAD. In the cityâ€™s underworld, a mob war rages. But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claimed a dozen victims, a murderer whose name is indelibly linked to their city: the Boston Strangler. This is the electrifying backdrop of William Landayâ€™s magnificent new novel, a story of one Irish-American family, a city under siege, and the long shadow cast by the most infamous killer of his day . . .

For the three Daley brothers, sons of a Boston cop, crime is the family business. They are simply on different sides of it. Joe is the eldest, a tough-talking cop whose gambling habitsâ€”fast women, slow horsesâ€”drag him down into the cityâ€™s gangland. Michael is the middle son; a Harvard-educated lawyer working for an ambitious attorney general, he finds himself assigned to the embattled Strangler task force. And Ricky, the devil-may-care youngest son, floats above the fray as an expert burglarâ€”until the Strangler strikes too close to home.

As Joeâ€™s mob debts close in around him . . . and Michael becomes snarled in a murder investigation gone very wrong . . . and Ricky is hunted by both sides of the law, the three brothersâ€”and the women who love themâ€”are forced to take sides. Now each must look deeper into a killerâ€™s murderous rage, into their familyâ€™s own lethal secrets, and into the one death that has changed them forever. As William Landayâ€™s complex, compassionate, and terrifying novel builds to a climax, two mysteries will collideâ€”and a shattering truth will be revealed.
Country USA
Brand Delacorte Press
Manufacturer Delacorte Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2007-01-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385336154

Country	USA
Brand	Delacorte Press
Manufacturer	Delacorte Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2007-01-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385336154

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