- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (21 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752847716
- ISBN-13: 978-0752847719
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 340,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. Detectives Carella, Kling, Meyer and Brown are learning all about ice; in a multimillion-dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small-time pusher. As the cops scramble for evidence, as the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is still on.
About the Author
B. Salvatore Lambino 1926, New York City. Changedl name to Evan Hunter, under which name he wrote THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS. He has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
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Format:Audio Cassette
Ed McBain was well into his long series of 87th Precinct books by the time the time he produced this one in 1983. This one is longer than most and has a huge cast. Social groups depicted include theatre personnel, drug dealers, diamond merchants, and of course the familiar 87th precinct cops. Accordingly, there are a huge number of suspects for the reader, and possibly the author, to finally attach to the various crimes committed.
Binding together all the disparate elements is the symbol ice. It represents the drugs that lie behind many of the crimes, it coats the night streets of New York where many of the crimes are committed, it seems to run through the veins of many of the dealers, rapists, charlatans and cheats that are encountered here, and its fragility typifies the fragility of law and order and even decent relationships in this so-called centre of civilization.
Lurid yet often beautiful, engrossing yet often repellent, this is certainly a McBain book that can be included amongst his best.
Garrick Hagon has become expert at providing audio unabridged versions of McBain's books. He estimates and provides the correct tone perfectly. His 1998 reading of this book, duration ten and a half hours, is one of the best in the series.
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I can't say that I've read any other '87th Precint' novels so I can't say whether it's the best or worst but I thoroughly enjoyed 'Ice', as another reviewer said, it has quite a bit in common with the likes of 'Hill Street Blues' and 'Third Watch' and it's a little like 'The Wire' without the fruity language.
It's written in the third person so you get all sides of the story of 2 seemingly unconnected murders both commited with the same gun and the book clocks in at around 300 pages and with McBain's fluid style, it's hard to put down, you just want to knock off another chapter, then another, then another...
It's written in the third person so you get all sides of the story of 2 seemingly unconnected murders both commited with the same gun and the book clocks in at around 300 pages and with McBain's fluid style, it's hard to put down, you just want to knock off another chapter, then another, then another...
Format:Paperback
This is one of a large number of '87th Precinct' novels which are meant to typify the 'police procedural' genre of crime writing. It is strikingly reminiscent of the TV programme 'Hill Street Blues' using an ensemble cast. If you like that programme this is very much for you.
The core murder story is told well without ever gripping and I have to confess it required a dose of determination to persevere to the end. It struck me as an author going through the motions with another one to pay the mortgage. That is not to say it is bad, just routine.
Mr McBain creates an excellent villain in the mad monk Brother Anthony with his obese girlfriend Emma. It indicates the problem with this novel that I wished he could have developed these characters rather than dispose of them as the baddies.
I finished this wishing I had rather watched a good one and half hour film version than have expended the seemingly endless hours it took to get into, stay with and then finish the book. Disappointed.
The core murder story is told well without ever gripping and I have to confess it required a dose of determination to persevere to the end. It struck me as an author going through the motions with another one to pay the mortgage. That is not to say it is bad, just routine.
Mr McBain creates an excellent villain in the mad monk Brother Anthony with his obese girlfriend Emma. It indicates the problem with this novel that I wished he could have developed these characters rather than dispose of them as the baddies.
I finished this wishing I had rather watched a good one and half hour film version than have expended the seemingly endless hours it took to get into, stay with and then finish the book. Disappointed.
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