The Peter Blauner Collection Volume One
Slow Motion Riot, Casino Moon, and Man of the Hour
Published on 17. April 2018
1385 pages
978-1-5040-5271-9 (ISBN)
Description
Gripping crime thrillers from the
New York Times-bestselling author of
The Intruder and
Proving Ground-"Nobody writing suspense novels does it as well" (James Patterson).
Praised by everyone from Stephen King and James Patterson to Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy, New York Times-bestselling author Peter Blauner has proven himself a master of the crime thriller. In the three novels collected here-including Blauner's Edgar Award-winning debut-the former journalist delivers breathtaking suspense alongside provocative questions of morality and ethics.
Slow Motion Riot: Blauner's Edgar Award-winning first novel is "a thriller with a conscience" ( Entertainment Weekly). That conscience belongs to probation officer Steven Baum, who still hopes to make a difference in a city plagued by drugs, murders, and corruption. But his newest charge is about to challenge him to his core. Darryl King is not just a small-time drug dealer-he's a psychopathic cop-killer.
"Harrowing." - The Washington Post
"Exceptionally well done." -Andrew Vachss
Casino Moon: Blauner's story of the son of an Atlantic City mobster is "a gritty novel with integrity and style" (James Patterson). Anthony Russo's scheme for staying out of the family crime business is to manage a has-been boxer's comeback. But it's Russo who ultimately takes the fall, as he discovers it's not so easy to escape the sins of his father.
"You could cut a lip on his dialogue." - The New York Times
"This book has it all... Blauner is... brilliant." -James Ellroy
Man of the Hour: When high school English teacher David Fitzgerald rescues a student after a terrorist bomb explosion on a school bus, he is lauded as a hero-until an ambitious reporter raises suspicions about Fitzgerald's involvement and he finds himself hounded by the media and under investigation by the police.
"A remarkable achievement-I loved it and couldn't put it down." -Stephen King
"As impressive for its realism as for its suspense." - Publishers Weekly
Praised by everyone from Stephen King and James Patterson to Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy, New York Times-bestselling author Peter Blauner has proven himself a master of the crime thriller. In the three novels collected here-including Blauner's Edgar Award-winning debut-the former journalist delivers breathtaking suspense alongside provocative questions of morality and ethics.
Slow Motion Riot: Blauner's Edgar Award-winning first novel is "a thriller with a conscience" ( Entertainment Weekly). That conscience belongs to probation officer Steven Baum, who still hopes to make a difference in a city plagued by drugs, murders, and corruption. But his newest charge is about to challenge him to his core. Darryl King is not just a small-time drug dealer-he's a psychopathic cop-killer.
"Harrowing." - The Washington Post
"Exceptionally well done." -Andrew Vachss
Casino Moon: Blauner's story of the son of an Atlantic City mobster is "a gritty novel with integrity and style" (James Patterson). Anthony Russo's scheme for staying out of the family crime business is to manage a has-been boxer's comeback. But it's Russo who ultimately takes the fall, as he discovers it's not so easy to escape the sins of his father.
"You could cut a lip on his dialogue." - The New York Times
"This book has it all... Blauner is... brilliant." -James Ellroy
Man of the Hour: When high school English teacher David Fitzgerald rescues a student after a terrorist bomb explosion on a school bus, he is lauded as a hero-until an ambitious reporter raises suspicions about Fitzgerald's involvement and he finds himself hounded by the media and under investigation by the police.
"A remarkable achievement-I loved it and couldn't put it down." -Stephen King
"As impressive for its realism as for its suspense." - Publishers Weekly
More details
Person
Peter Blauner (b. 1959) has spent nearly his entire life in New York City. After graduating from Wesleyan University he took a staff job at
New York Magazine, where he found the inspiration for his first book, the Edgar Award-winning
Slow Motion Riot, in the men and women who work in the city's probation department. Since then, he has written five more novels:
Casino Moon, the
New York Times bestseller
The Intruder,
Man of the Hour,
The Last Good Day, and 2006's
Slipping Into Darkness.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Slow Motion Riot
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
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- Casino Moon
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
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- Man of the Hour
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Prologue
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- Acknowledgments
- A Biography of Peter Blauner
- Copyright
