- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby (10 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749005912
- ISBN-13: 978-0749005917
- Product Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,798,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Lewis smartly moves his hero in and out of his bind while making his devotion to his shady waterfront clientele entirely understandable.' New York Times 'Clear, practiced prose, cleverly twisted plotting, sustained tension, and detailed police procedure make this outstanding British mystery a highly recommended choice for all collections.' Library Journal 'A literate, thoughtful examination of human nature combined with a grimly suspenseful police procedural.' Booklist
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Lawyer Eric Ward has agreed to represent the interests of a protest group campaigning against a local industrial waste disposal site, but an explosion at the plant leaves his client dead. Joe Paulson wasn't a criminal exactly - but his after-hours activities raiding the dustbins of the great and good, from politicians to high-flying businessmen, meant he was despised by many for the secrets he held in his grasp. But who feared the nightwalker enough to kill him? Whilst the police struggle to separate facts from rumours, Ward's marriage slowly unravels before his eyes as the past continues to dog his footsteps. And when an old favour is called in, he may have no choice but to put his own life in danger...
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Down and out in north England
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With his marriage in trouble, lawyer Eric Ward has thrown himself into his job. He's good at what he does but some of his current cases don't look promising. The owners of a toxic waste dump are willing to talk settlement, but the leader of the neighborhood group Eric is representing wants revenge for his son's illness. The muckraking dumpster-diver is holding out for vindication rather than the slap on the wrist that he could get. Finally, a newspaperman comes to him with rumors about insurance fraud involving the man Eric suspects has taken up with his wife. When one of his clients is killed and another suspected of the murder, Eric's life gets more complicated in a hurry.
Author Roy Lewis switches between Eric's point of view and that of DCI Charlie Spate. Spate is working the cases for the police and hopes to pin something on a mobster who has his hands in both prostitution and drugs in the northern England city of Tyne. Spate has problems of his own--having been drummed out of the Met and suffering from an acute case of lust for one of his female detectives. Neither man trusts the other and both insist on working the case from their own angles.
THE NIGHTWALKER is an interesting mystery filled with characters with histories, pains, and goals that are certain to be frustrated. Unfortunately, Lewis doesn't completely deliver on the potential of his characters or the story. Eric and Spate both seem too beaten by the world to fight back with all of their force--and often seem to approach the mystery with that same attitude.
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