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The Man with No Time
The Simeon Grist Mysteries (Book 5)
- Author
- Timothy Hallinan
- Narrator
- Keith Szarabajka
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 4 August 2015
- Run Time
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Edgar and Macavity Award–nominated author Timothy Hallinan throws his erudite Los Angeles private eye into the middle of a global human-trafficking operation in this fifth book in the series. Simeon Grist does a favor for the family of his sometimes-girlfriend, Eleanor Chan, and goes looking for two children who vanished in Chinatown. He quickly learns that he’s gone straight through the looking glass and into a world where grieving parents are afraid to contact the police, where fear is the teacher and power is the law, and where helpless people are shipped from China to America and forced into lives of toil and submission.
Critics Review
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“Spenser’s met his match…Some of the best mystery reading of the year. Hallinan’s story is sheer genius, with a highly original plot, snappy dialogue, mind-boggling menace, memorable characters, plenty of nightmare-producing violence, and enough thrills and chills to catch the attention of the most jaded reader…This book should move him into the upper echelon of hard-boiled detective fiction writers.”
Booklist (starred review)
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“A lippy, fast-paced read.”
Kirkus Reviews
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“A modern successor to Raymond Chandler.”
Los Angeles Daily News, praise for the author
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Details
- Author
- Timothy Hallinan
- Narrator
- Keith Szarabajka
- Duration
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 August 2015
- ISBN
- 9781504617611
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Synopsis
Edgar and Macavity Award–nominated author Timothy Hallinan throws his erudite Los Angeles private eye into the middle of a global human-trafficking operation in this fifth book in the series. Simeon Grist does a favor for the family of his sometimes-girlfriend, Eleanor Chan, and goes looking for two children who vanished in Chinatown. He quickly learns that he’s gone straight through the looking glass and into a world where grieving parents are afraid to contact the police, where fear is the teacher and power is the law, and where helpless people are shipped from China to America and forced into lives of toil and submission.
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