- Paperback
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Mass Market; Reissue edition (July 1 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0380700840
- ISBN-13: 978-0380700844
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 10.4 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 91 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,555,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Roger Broome is in the city to sell the woodenwares he and his brother handcrafted in their shop upstate—and he does so with stunning success. To celebrate, he goes out to enjoy the fruits of his labor and winds up in a bar, where he meets Molly. They have a few drinks and then head back to his room.
Now Molly is dead, and only Roger knows what happened.
The men at the 87th would surely love to get that information from Roger…if they even knew he had it. While Roger wants to report what he knows to the detectives, he struggles to reach out to them when a Spanish beauty named Amelia makes him forget everything else in his life. And with each missed opportunity, Roger delays justice from being served.
One of the 87th Precinct series’ more gripping and psychologically intense installments, He Who Hesitates is bestselling author Ed McBain at his finest as he delivers a brooding, suspenseful thriller Newsday hails as “a tour de force!” --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Now Molly is dead, and only Roger knows what happened.
The men at the 87th would surely love to get that information from Roger…if they even knew he had it. While Roger wants to report what he knows to the detectives, he struggles to reach out to them when a Spanish beauty named Amelia makes him forget everything else in his life. And with each missed opportunity, Roger delays justice from being served.
One of the 87th Precinct series’ more gripping and psychologically intense installments, He Who Hesitates is bestselling author Ed McBain at his finest as he delivers a brooding, suspenseful thriller Newsday hails as “a tour de force!” --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
About the Author
Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005). Debuting in 1956, the popular 87th Precinct is one of the longest running crime series ever published, featuring over fifty novels, and is hailed as “one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” McBain was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986 by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An unusual McBain,
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This review is from: He Who Hesitates (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the most unusual novel in the great 87th Precinct detective series in that instead of being told in the third person like the rest of the books, it is narrated by one of the perpetrators. The perp in question is also one of the more interesting and psychologically tormented of the entire series. This is not the 87th Precinct novel to start with, but if you are a fan of the series, you'll love this one.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Engrossing story told from a new perspective.,
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This review is from: He Who Hesitates (Mass Market Paperback)
A new and interesting twist to the series of the 87th precinct. It has an originality that only Ed Mcbain can work with, and draw the reader into the minds of the villain, rather than the detectives themselves. It gives a new glimpse into the lives of the detectives as seen by others, and not only from what is read. It keeps you in suspense about what is to happen, and also, what has happened. There is true genius in this piece of work.
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent -- two pens up,
By Eric J. Dickey "eric jerome dickey" (Southern California, in the good old United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: He Who Hesitates (Mass Market Paperback)
I loved this story. It felt like a short story, but the characters he drew were fantastic. It was a see-saw,a tugging at the unknown that made this a page turner for me.
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