Review
'Carr's stylish tale is brilliantly researched and written with commanding elegance and supreme confidence.' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'a vivid picture of fin-de-siecle New York.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'This first novel, superbly written and transfixingly gripping, is an extraordinary achievement.' SCOTSMAN 'Superb. Too good to leave on a beach.' MAIL ON SUNDAY
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Book Description
Reissue of this ground-breaking historical whodunnit, in which 1890s New York is as much a character as the investigators
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Product Description
New York City, 1896. Hypocrisy in high places is rife, police corruption commonplace, and a brutal killer is terrorizing young male prostitutes. Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt is struggling to make headway against prejudices and determined to improve New York City.
About the Author
Caleb Carr is a renowned military historian and author of the seminal history of terrorism: THE LESSONS OF TERROR. He is also author of the sequel to THE ALIENIST, THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS, and the futuristic KILLING TIME. He lives in New York.
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