Hardcover, 338 pages
English language
Published February 2002 by St. Martin's Minotaur.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-312-24555-9
- OCLC Number:
- 48123526
- ASIN:
- 0312245556
- Goodreads:
- 528266
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In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They're holding a 15-year-old kid named Gary — a kid Bill knows. But before Bill can find out what is going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody into the dark night and unfamiliar streets. Bill, with the help of his partner Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that led him so far from home. Tracking Gary's family to a small town in New Jersey, Bill finds himself in a town where nothing matters but high school football, where the secrets of the past - both the town's and Bill's own - threaten to destroy the present. And if Bill is to have any chance of saving Gary and preventing a tragedy, he has to both unravel a long buried crime and confront the darkness of his …
In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They're holding a 15-year-old kid named Gary — a kid Bill knows. But before Bill can find out what is going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody into the dark night and unfamiliar streets. Bill, with the help of his partner Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that led him so far from home. Tracking Gary's family to a small town in New Jersey, Bill finds himself in a town where nothing matters but high school football, where the secrets of the past - both the town's and Bill's own - threaten to destroy the present. And if Bill is to have any chance of saving Gary and preventing a tragedy, he has to both unravel a long buried crime and confront the darkness of his own past.
Subjects
- Smith, Bill (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Chin, Lydia (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Women private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Runaway teenagers -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- New Jersey -- Fiction