I Am Gold
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
The 27th installment in the popular Harpur & Iles series.
A woman and her stepson are gunned down
while driving to school on a quiet residential
street. An former bodyguard kills himself
by firing two pistols simultaneously. Was
the killer really aft er the woman’s husband,
the notorious drug baron Mansel Shale?
And what possible connection could Shale’s
collection of pre-Raphaelite works of art
have to the killings? Nothing in Bill James’s
latest Harpur & Iles thriller is as it seems.
When the police chase the shooting suspect
into a busy second-hand shop the action
quickly turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse
standoff . As the siege unfolds, with more
than just gunplay in the mix, events threaten
to take down more than the gunman and
his hostages. Will this spell the end of Detective Harpur and his troubled boss, Assistant
Chief Constable Iles?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Asst. Chief Constable Desmond Iles and Det. Chief Supt. Colin Harpur remain effective colleagues, despite their bickering, in James's solid 27th Harpur & Iles mystery set in an unnamed English seaport (after May 2011's Hotbed). The uneasy d tente between the town's police and criminals is shattered when a gunman riddles gang leader Mansel Shale's Jaguar, killing his wife, Naomi, and his school-age son, Laurent. Was Ralph Ember (aka Panicking Ralph), Shale's rival, behind the attack? Will there be blood in the streets? After the gunman crashes his car, he flees on foot, seizes a hostage, and bolts into a nearby shop, where he takes several more hostages. Iles proclaims himself "Gold" in absolute charge of the hostage situation though Harpur has his own idea of how it should be handled. In flashbacks, James adds another colorful piece to his serial crime saga by describing the meeting and wooing of Shale and Naomi.
