Killer's Wedge
- ISBN-10
- 074908023X
- ISBN-13
- 9780749080235
- Category
- 87th Precinct (Imaginary place)
- Pages
- 233
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-12-03
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby
- Author
- Ed McBain
Description
Her name is death - and her name is Virginia Dodge. Virginia Dodge is determined to put a bullet through Steve Carella's brain, and she doesn't care if she has to kill all the boys in the 87th Precinct in the process.Armed with a gun and a bottle of nitro-glycerine she spends an afternoon terrorising Lieutenant Byrnes and his men with her clever little home-made bomb. Is there anything the boys at the 87th can do to save Carella or will this crazy broad achieve her goal ??In one of the most dazzling novellas of the Precinct, Ed McBain exposes the dangerous loyalties that keep the boys of the 87th together, and threaten to tear them apart at the same time.
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