Where the Dead Lay

Zusatztext “Levien is the new must-read thriller writer.” —Lee Child “A punishing piece of fiction! overflowing with intrigue. . . . [With] enough cutthroat action to keep your eyebrows in upright position for days.” — The Free-Lance Star “ Where the Dead Lay delivers on all counts. It is crime fiction at its finest.” —Christopher Reich   “Violent and compelling. . . . This is American thriller writing at its rocket-fuelled! roller-coaster best.” — Daily Mail “Fast-paced! well-plotted and moving. . . . Levien has an ear for dialogue that many of us don’t often hear. . . . Gripping.” — Indianopolis Star   “David Levien is a marvel. His dialogue is straight-up! so street that it’s a wonder the pages aren’t coated with grit. His descriptions are true to life! real and unflinching! a combination of Mickey Spillane! Wallace Stroby and Richard Stark! but nonetheless all Levien.” — Bookreporter.com   “ Where the Dead Lay is written with such natural power! is so attuned to the story and the reader! that you might wish you could unread it! just to experience it a second time.” — Bookotron.com   Informationen zum Autor David Levien is the author of City of the Sun .  He also cowrote the screenplays for Ocean’s Thirteen, Runaway Jury, Rounders , and several other films.  He lives in Connecticut.   www.davidlevien.com Klappentext When Frank Behr's friend and mentor is murdered without any apparent motive! he thirsts for answers and retaliation. But before he can make headway in the dead-end investigation! a private firm approaches him with a delicate proposition: two of its detectives have gone missing! and the firm wants Behr to find out what happened to them. The search for the missing detectives takes Behr into the recesses of Indianapolis's underworld! a place rife with brutality and vice where Behr uncovers a shocking thread connecting the missing detectives to his friend's brutal murder! and! in the process! an ominous! deadly new breed of crime family. Leseprobe 1 The morning was gray, and a cool that wouldn't last. Frank Behr steered his Toronado across East Prospect, and appreciated the empty streets at 5:45 a.m. His neck still throbbed from a guillotine choke he had barely escaped a day ago, and he was having trouble turning his head to the left, but at this hour the city was his. He had a jump on the world, and that felt good. As he drove, he tried to leave his mind distant and unfocused. Better not to dwell on the soft bed he'd just left, or on the physical challenge that loomed ahead of him. In twenty minutes time he'd be soaked in sweat, his heart hammering, arms and legs turned to molten lead, as he attempted to gain limb breaking position against a virtually impossible opponent. Pummeling, clinches, fire feet and sprawl drills, takedowns, guard escapes and technique work. Topped off by lunge walks with a 100lb. ground and pound bag on his shoulder. It was enough to cause a replay of last night's dinner, and that was just for openers, before they began to 'roll,' which was what they called sparring at Aurelio Santos' Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Academy. Behr cut right on Sherman. There wasn't much traffic, but whatever cars were out at this hour would be along 74, so he avoided it. Behr trained alone with Aurelio himself, and because of that made damn sure he was on time for their six a.m. starts. It was a matter of respect. Behr had tried the normal group classes in the evenings at the Academy, but leaving the hardest thing of the day until the end was exactly the opposite of how it worked for him now. The specter of it tended to hang over his day. It was a concession to his age, he figured, which was a little chunk on the wrong side of forty, but nowadays he needed to clear the physical effort first. Aurelio ch...

Product details

• Authors: David Levien
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.06.2010
• EAN: 9780307387219
• ISBN: 978-0-307-38721-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 174 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Anchor Books; Frank Behr; Frank Behr
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense