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Lightning

87th Precinct, Book 37

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Lightning

By: Ed McBain
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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Two perps - one a serial killer and the other a rapist who revisits his victims - test the limits of the 87th Precinct’s detectives as they race to catch these maniacs loose on the city’s streets.

©1984 Ed McBain (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime
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“McBain has the ability to make every character believable - which few writers these days can do.” (Associated Press)
“McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet...even those we thought we already knew.” ( New York Times Book Review)
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This seemed like this would be a good book. Then things became ridiculous. There is no way any police department, would use a woman as a decoy and not protect her.

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