11 Days

Zusatztext "A hell of a first novel... Gripping and unsettling." --Michael Connelly "With one startling twist after another! this grisly but cunningly sophisticated story is truly frightening." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Downright explosive! The descriptions of the police work rival Wambaugh's best." -- Publishers Weekly "Harstad...advances the scary (and perversely entertaining) notion that people are just as cuckoo in the heartland as they are in the wicked city." -- The New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Donald Harstad Klappentext In a mesmerizing debut! cop-turned-author Donald Harstad uses real-life events to paint a jarring picture of crime in America's heartland--where two-stoplight towns no longer offer refuge from modern-day brutality. Life in Maitland! Iowa! is usually predictable! even for a cop. But all that changes the day Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman's dispatcher receives the terrifying 911 call. The day cops find the mutilated bodies at a remote farmhouse. The first of eleven days Carl will never forget. As hotshot investigators fly in from New York! Carl and his fellow cops use old-fashioned detective work to piece together clues. But to turn suspicions into suspects! Carl must search among his closest friends to find a killer who has shocked and bewildered cops who'd thought they'd seen it all. And before it's over! Carl will be forced into an unrelenting spiral of chaos! coming face-to-face with evil he never dreamed could exist in Maitland...or anywhere else. Friday, April 19, 1996 23:52 hours The call came into County Communications from an unidentified source, believed female, possibly under fifty.  No callback number was given and no further contact was noted. "Sheriff's Department." "My God, my God, help us here, help us here, please .  .  ." "Who is calling and what is wrong?" The dispatcher was Sally Wells--no extra chatter at all and very calm.  She was new and part-time, but she learned fast. "Help us, they're killing everybody!  Help!" "Where are you and who is calling?" "Just get help"--indecipherable--"killed Francis, he killed him, help us here!" "Where are you?" "The Francis McGuire farm!  Help!" "Where is the farm?" "Jesus Christ, help us up"--indecipherable--"didn't mean it.  Oh God, oh God, I don't know, please help.  Please .  .  ." "Stay on the line!" Sally held fast and with the phone to her ear contacted the available patrol cars. "Comm, three and five .  .  .  10-33 .  .  .  Possible homicide.  Francis McGuire, I think that's the farm near William's Hollow.  I, uh, think it's in progress, subject on line.  Repeat, this is a 10-33." "Comm.  Three.  Which side of the hollow, north or south?" I said in as soothing a voice as I could manage. "Three, stand by," Sally said with relief.  "Ma'am, are you north or south of the Hollow?" "Jesus God, I don't know.   I don't know!  Help!" "One moment.  Hold tight.  Three.  Unable to advise." Five, Mike Conners, came on.  "I think they're on the south side, just before the bridge--about five miles out of Maitland, second or third gravel to the right." "10-4, five.  Comm, check the caller." I made the turn to take me to the Hollow. Sally went back to the phone, and it became apparent that the complainant had heard the radio traffic. "It's the second turn, the second turn, oh God, hurry!" "She says the second turn, three." "Tell 'em to hurry!" (Indecipherable) "told me"--indecipherable--"again!  He's just dead. Can't--" With that, the line went dead.  I was only about ten miles from William's Hollow, while Mike was about twenty-six miles out.  Unfortunately I was north, and the directions were from the south. "Comm, three.  I'm in from the north....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Donald Harstad
• Verlag: Bantam Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 04.05.1999
• EAN: 9780553581485
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58148-5
• Seiten: 368
• Abmessung: 106 mm x 174 mm x 21 mm
• Serien: Carl Houseman; Carl Houseman
• Thema: Belletristik > Spannung > Krimis, Thriller, Spionage