{"product_id":"9780765331205","title":"Burning Midnight : An Amos Walker Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBurning Midnight\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Loren D. Estleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBurning Midnight, \u003c\/i\u003emaster of the hard-boiled detective novel Loren D. Estleman gives readers a hot new Amos Walker mystery.\u003cbr\u003eAmos Walker knows Detroit, from the highest to the lowest, and that includes the gangs of Mexicantown. When a friend asks Walker to get his son's brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs, Walker gets in trouble fast. First, dead bodies start to pile up; then come suspicious fires and the bottle bombs. Walker is caught in the middle of a gang war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether or not a middle-aged gringo like him can cool things off between the Maldados and the Zapatistas, he's got to try; he did promise his friend. Once he gets involved, he realizes there's something else going on; the specter of an international conspiracy threatens to make this local trouble blow sky-high. And if he ends up dead or in jail for murders he didn't commit, he might have to put that promise on hold. It's tough being Amos Walker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shamus Award–winner Estleman demonstrates that the art of inserting a Philip Marlowe–esque hero into modern times is alive and well in his twenty-first novel featuring Detroit PI Amos Walker…. Estleman presents a powerful view of the battered inner city. Three decades on, Estleman and Walker show no signs of slowing down.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review on Infernal Angels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Estleman has piled up enough literary awards to add a wing to his home. Read this classic yet modern example of the hard-boiled detective novel and you'll begin to understand why.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist on Infernal Angels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Estleman's latest intricate and wholly enjoyable yarn is peppered with mob lore, Detroit history, and the ever-present one-liners. It's sure to please fans of urban mysteries as well as classic detective genre devotees. Strongly recommended.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal on The Left-Handed Dollar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Amos Walker, the throwback private eye who operates out of Detroit in Loren D. Estleman's hard-boiled mysteries, is a lot like the old Cutlass he drives. The guy may look beat up, but under the hood he's a clean machine.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review on The Left-Handed Dollar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780765331205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Forge Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40593089200334,"sku":"9780765331205","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_6587f70c-2cb8-46a5-97bf-2407bcad9df7.jpg?v=1637780888","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780765331205","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}