- Paperback
- Publisher: Avon Books (Mm); Reprint edition (June 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0380707616
- ISBN-13: 978-0380707614
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
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From Publishers Weekly
McBain shows a lighter side while providing lots of fast action in this complicated story of a Floridian caught up in Manhattan madness.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
McBain lays off the 87th Precinct for a zany Christmas adventure that takes off like a nuclear-powered roller coaster: hick Florida orange-grower Michael Barnes, looking to catch the last plane out of Manhattan after a business trip, gets hustled by a pair of sharpies, then, minus his driver's license, turns his car over to a movie producer who ditches him and drives it away, and then, leaving the police station where he's reported his bad luck, gets held up by a masked Chinese gunman who leads him, when they're both chased by a police officer in lingerie (don't ask), to a high-stakes crapshoot. Just when you're figuring this for a remake of The Out-of-Towners and Blind Date (two of the few movies McBain doesn't refer to directly sooner or later), Michael hears that the movie producer's been found dead in Michael's rented car, along with Michael's wallet and ID- -except, as Michael and gorgeous chauffeur Connie Kee find out, it isn't really the movie producer at all, but the little man in a humongous drug-ring they'd better look into if they're going to keep Michael (instantly famous from the late-night TV news) out of stir. Ramshackle plotting toward the end, as usual with recent McBains, but still slick and professionally funny--a real grabber. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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McBain's best non-87th Precinct novel, May 21 2000
By Joseph T. Reeves - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Downtown (Paperback)
Besides the excellent 87th Precinct novels, Ed McBain has also written several crime and detective novels. Of these, "Downtown" is the best, as well as one of his best, period."Downtown" starts on Christmas Eve as Florida orange grower Michael Barnes, in New York on business, runs afoul of bogus cops, thieves, the mob, and a slimy movie producer. McBain piles on the action and absurdity at a furious pace as Barnes sinks deeper and deeper into the worst New York has to offer. McBain has always been adept at infusing his hard-boiled fiction with a sardonic humor that borders on the ludicrous. In "Downtown," he proves he can still walk that tightrope as he balances the hilarity of Barnes' situation with a lean, hard-hitting narrative style.
In fact, McBain's humor is so deliberately distracting, you don't realize it when he turns deadly serious. Michael Barnes may be bounced from one jam to another, but he too has a dark side, like most McBain characters. When pushed enough, he too becomes as deadly as his foes and as hard-boiled as any Raymond Chandler creation. "Downtown" is another example of Ed McBain at his best. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Take this trip to New York!, May 9 1997
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Downtown (Paperback)
Reminiscent of the "Out of Towners," this business trip to New York is tough on the hero but endlessly entertaining for the reader. Definitely one of McBain's best
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Gives New Meaning to "Rotten", Dec 9 2011
By Mark Twain - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Downtown (Audio Cassette)
Have the tapes, which were "free" at a library sale. Should'a been paid to take them for free. The would-be humor requires a laugh track. The recording includes all the "he/she said"s following each moment of dialogue from the book. Endless - and what I have is abridged. Reading the written guaranty for your latest purchase would be more entertaining. And most likely better written.
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