A Matthew Hope Novel.
'Bang. Bang.'
Two shots and two sentences into Ed McBain's latest Matthew Hope mystery, and the lawyer-sleuth hero is out of commission, leaving his friends and colleagues to find out why he has landed comatose in a Florida hospital bed, a flickering monitor his only sign of life.
This story uses a restlessly energetic, crosscutting flashback technique that moves from point of view to point of view and is an enjoyable three-ring circus of a book, with action, colour, noise and confusion all suddenly resolving themselves into perfect logical order.
