{"product_id":"9781250052209","title":"Mean Business on North Ganson Street : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMean Business on North Ganson Street\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): S. Craig Zahler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hardened city detective is sent to a hellhole rust belt town in Missouri where violent crime is skyrocketing and police officers are showing up dead in S Craig Zahler's crime thriller \u003ci\u003eMean Business on North Ganson Street\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA distraught businessman kills himself after a short, impolite conversation with a detective named Jules Bettinger. Because of this incident, the unkind (but decorated) policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from Arizona to the frigid north, where he will work for an understaffed precinct in Victory, Missouri. This collapsed rustbelt city is a dying beast that devours itself and its inhabitants...and has done so for more than four decades. Its streets are covered with dead pigeons and there are seven hundred criminals for every law enforcer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePartnered with a boorish and demoted corporal, Bettinger investigates a double homicide in which two policemen were slain and mutilated. The detective looks for answers in the fringes of the city and also in the pasts of the cops with whom he works—men who stomped on a local drug dealer until he was disabled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBettinger soon begins to suspect that the double homicide is not an isolated event, but a prelude to a series of cop executions...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Zahler evocatively illustrates a city on the verge of moral and economic collapse.” —\u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“From the cinematic first sentence of the first paragraph of the first page of this book, S. Craig Zahler serves notice that the term \"mean streets\" is not exclusively reserved for big cities on either coast. \u003ci\u003eMean Business on North Ganson Street\u003c\/i\u003e offers up a ‘heartland noir' that will appeal to readers for whom mystery novels are like crack, but it will also entertain those who usually prefer to experience their crime fiction on shows like \u003ci\u003eThe Killing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTrue Detective.\u003c\/i\u003e Read this book.” —\u003ci\u003eCriminalElement.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] grim, brilliantly imagined work.” —\u003ci\u003eBook Reporter.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Riveting and horrifying.” —\u003ci\u003eCurledUp.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Whether writing westerns, science fiction, or crime, Zahler always manages to bring something new to the genre…Zahler's mean streets are  bizarrely mean. But \u003ci\u003eMean Business\u003c\/i\u003e is often mordantly funny, too--and not to be missed.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Zahler tells a gripping story.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Zahler means business all right. As funny as it is moving and as tender as it is violent, \u003ci\u003eMean Business On North Ganson Street\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb police thriller that carries serious emotional heft.” —\u003ci\u003eAllan Guthrie, Edgar-nominated author of Slammer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250052209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Thomas Dunne Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40596001259726,"sku":"9781250052209","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250052209","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}