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A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure to solve the crime and captivated by the victim's beautiful girlfriend. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets crammed full of people.
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Classical in form, relentless, plot-driven and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Harry Harrison
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 229
- Publisher
- Ace, Orb Books, Doubleday
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780425040430
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Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelance graphic artist, providing illustrations for book covers, magazines, and comic books such as Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He also began contributing articles to these magazines. In 1952, he moved
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