Cassandra Lee Ridley is an ex-airforce pilot who now scrapes a living flying low level contraband over the border to Mexico. But Cassandra has a taste for the better things in life and when she gets offered a $200,000 contract to fly what she assumes are drugs, she takes a deep breath and agrees to do it. The job goes perfectly, the deliveries are made and the money paid to the Mexican drug lords. One problem though. All $1.9 million dollars of the payment are fake - and printed in Teheran, of all places. The Mexicans soon want their money - and Cassandra is their first stop and first fatality. And when her naked body is thrown to the lions in a zoo in the 87th Precinct, New York, it becomes Detective Steve Carella's problem. Soon, the whole world has gone mad, the Mexicans are on the rampage, two beautiful blond girls are killing to their own agenda, a New York drugs dealer gets sucked in - and spat out - and even Arab terrorists make their own play...
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Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer and Fat Ollie Weeks have been working the 87th Precinct for more than 40 years, but they're still the top dicks in town for devotees of Ed McBain's absorbing police procedurals, of which Money, Money, Money is one.
When a pretty, red-haired, ex-military pilot is killed, the boys in blue blunder around for a few chapters before they unmask her secret life as a drug courier. By then the burglar who broke into Cass Ridley's apartment and stole the "tip" she got for her last run has already tried to spend one of the $100 bills from her stash, attracting the attention of the Secret Service. The "superbill" is phoney, and by the time Carella and his crew uncover the international counterfeit ring behind it, McBain has taken the action up a notch with a terrorist plot to bomb Clarendon (read Carnegie) Hall, where an eminent Israeli violinist is performing. There's also a conspiracy involving a publishing company whose sales reps are so venal and violent you might think they were the creation of a writer who blamed them when his last book failed to sell. Not so McBain, who can't have too many complaints in that department. His publisher's reps have been living well for decades on the commissions earned on McBain's books (including those of Evan Hunter, his alter ego).
That he has kept this series going for so long without tricking up the plots, turning his characters into stereotypes or sacrificing their humanity is a tribute to his authorial gifts: expert pacing, sharp-edged dialogue, authenticity, wit and confidence. There's only one thing getting old in this, his 51st book in an evergreen series: the fictional convention that locates the 87th in a place called Isola instead of midtown Manhattan, where it so clearly is set. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'McBain is so good that he ought to be arrested' - Publishers Weekly
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Yes, Ed McBain is back with another 87th novel, his 50th (or is it 51st? I'm not sure), and what is most appalling is that he still keeps up the superb quality he established in the very first novels some 45 years ago!
This book is about drug dealing and false money, a well-constructed plot with the strong nerve and the outstanding dialogues that characterizes McBain's most novels. Furthermore, some of the leads in this novel seem to promise further action in the next book...
I often read other mystery novels, Anglo-Saxon as well as Swedish. But most of them turn me down by being poorly narrated. Or the plot is unconvincing or too "constructed". Therefore it is a true relief to recognize a vintage McBain.
This book is about drug dealing and false money, a well-constructed plot with the strong nerve and the outstanding dialogues that characterizes McBain's most novels. Furthermore, some of the leads in this novel seem to promise further action in the next book...
I often read other mystery novels, Anglo-Saxon as well as Swedish. But most of them turn me down by being poorly narrated. Or the plot is unconvincing or too "constructed". Therefore it is a true relief to recognize a vintage McBain.
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Only Ed McBain could make a story about drug trafficking and counterfeiting seem original. The other storyline about a terrorist plot was eerie in its timeliness.
The 87th precinct novels are the best police procedurals, EVER. My mission in life is to read them all (I'm almost there). The stories are captivating, the dialogue is too delicious. Reading an 87th precinct novel is like eating a sweet crunchy apple. You savor each bite, you never want it to end but you can't stop eating and all too soon you're done, and you're left wanting more.
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This book has to be but on the must read list of all crime fiction fans. In normal Ed McBain fashion he grabs your attention right from the start with a horrific murder. He then takes you by the hand for a journey into the darkest corners of criminal behavour.
If you are an Ed McBain fan this book will not disappoint. If you've never picked up an Ed McBain book before this will introduce you to an author that has writen so many winning stories it will take you six mouths to catch us.
Enjoy, I did.
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No-one writes US police procedurals like Ed McBain: the acclaimed 87th Precinct series, of which this is one (out of.. um... Read more
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McBain back to his best!
This is the first McBain I've read for a while but it's every bit as good as the previous twenty! A clever, but simple plot about money laundering, drug trafficing and simple... Read more
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