City on the Edge

In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and that their family's fragile domesticity is merely a front for American efforts along the nearby Israeli border. Over the course of one year, 1972, Graham's life will utterly change. Two men are murdered, his parent's marriage disintegrates, and Graham, along with his two ex-pat friends, run afoul of forces they cannot understand.

About the author

David Swinson is a retired police detective from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, having been assigned to Major Crimes. Swinson is the author of the critically acclaimed Frank Marr Trilogy - The Second Girl, Crime Song and Trigger, and the standalone City on the Edge. He lives in Northern Virginia.

Summary

A thrilling new novel by David Swinson, "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (New York Times Book Review), featuring a lush and complex new setting: Beirut.

Foreword

A thrilling new novel by David Swinson, "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (New York Times Book Review), featuring a lush and complex new setting: Beirut.

Product details

• Authors: David Swinson, Swinson David
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2021
• EAN: 9780316528542
• ISBN: 978-0-316-52854-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Noir, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, 70s; books set in Europe; Lebanese; lebanon; spy story