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Drift: A Thriller
Author:
McGoran, Jonathan
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Series:
Doyle Carrick, #1
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Class:
Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: PS3604
Print Run: 40000
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ISBN-13: 9780765334701
LCCN: 2013003646
Imprint: Forge
Publisher: Tor Books
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Pub Date: 07/09/2013
Availability: Out of Print Confirmed
List: $24.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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384 pages ; 22 cm
H 8.52",
W 5.93",
D 1.29",
1.02 lbs.
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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Awards:
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Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews
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Publishers Weekly
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TIPS Subjects:
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Suspense/Thriller
Mystery/Detective Fiction
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BISAC Subjects: |
FICTION / Thrillers / General
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LC Subjects:
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Drug dealers, Fiction
Mystery fiction
Philadelphia (Pa.), Fiction
Police, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Fiction
Suspense fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Criminals, Fiction
Drug traffic, Fiction
Mystery fiction
Philadelphia (Pa.), Fiction
Police, Philadelphia (Pa.), Fiction
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 04/01/2013 |
| What happens when food and drug dealers mix? Forced to lay low at an inherited Pennsylvania house is no way for Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick to live. When a budding romance with his neighbor leads Doyle to a group of drug dealers traveling the small-town roads, Doyle leaps into action to keep his threatened neighbor safe and expose the dealers despite his boss's refusal to take the matter seriously. Debut Novel, 384pp., 40K, Auth res: Philadelphia, PA |
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| Publishers Weekly | 05/13/2013 |
| McGoran (Body Trace and two other Madison Cross mysteries under his D.H. Dublin pseudonym) impressively integrates concerns about genetically modified produce with an action-filled storyline and fleshed-out characters. Det. Doyle Carrick of the Philadelphia PD, suspended after putting a gun to a drug dealer's head to coerce information, uses his mandatory vacation to take residence in the house he's inherited from his recently deceased parents in the rural community of Dunston, Pa. At a Dunston diner, he steps in to save organic farmer Nola Watkins from a creep who grabs her by the wrist. Watkins has also been receiving hang-up calls, which may be related to efforts by real-estate developers to buy out most of the local land owners. Watkins's refusal to sell may have ticked off those who have already cut deals and who perhaps fear that she will ruin their sales. The disturbing, but scientifically plausible, secret at the heart of the bad guys' schemes is an original one, and McGoran makes the most of it. Agent: Stacia Decker, Donald Maass Literary Agency. (July). 384p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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| Booklist | 06/01/2013 |
| Doyle Carrick is not having a good year. First, he buries his mother, and then he gets suspended from his job as a Philadelphia narcotics cop. He decides to take the forced time off to settle his parents' affairs at the farmhouse they had bought in rural Pennsylvania. Surprises await; he discovers a young farmhand staying in the house, spots some known drug dealers driving around town, and finds a couple of burned-down meth houses in the not-so-idyllic burg. He falls for his neighbor, a passionate young woman trying to make a go of her organic farm, and she educates Carrick on the genetically modified food industry. Being on suspension doesn't seem to stop Carrick from investigating the drug dealers in his new neighborhood, and the local sheriff doesn't take kindly to the interference. This biotech thriller delivers a complex Frankenfood story, with lots of twists and turns leading to a startling ending. Readers who enjoy Michael Crichton or like Paul McEuen's Spiral (2011), or even the nonfiction biothrillers by Richard Preston, will find much to enjoy here. Alesi, Stacy. 384p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 07/01/2013 |
| A big-city cop suspended from Narcotics after an angry outburst retreats to his late mother's house in bucolic Dunston, Pa., only to find that Philadelphia was a lot safer than this little hamlet. As if Meredith Carrick's death weren't enough, more bad news swiftly follows for depressive Detective Doyle Carrick: His stepfather, Frank Menlow, has died as well. Since there's no one left to tend their place and Doyle has no reason to stay in the city, he rusticates himself to Dunston, where neighboring organic farmer Nola Watkins offers at least the promise of sweet diversion. Little does Doyle know that by the time he gets Frank buried, there'll be four other bodies cooling in the Dunston morgue, casualties of Doyle's repeated run-ins with a passel of drug dealers. And that's only the tip of the iceberg. Redtail Holding Company has been buying up parcels of land in unseemly haste, and the anonymous calls pressing Nola to sell soon escalate to more florid misfortunes. The designer blue corn she's contracted to raise for a wedding reception is infected with a mysterious blight. Someone sets fire to her cornfield after methodically harvesting the infected crop. Doyle's attempts to interest Police Chief Francis Pruitt in Nola's troubles are stymied by the fact that Pruitt already has his eye on Doyle as a troublemaker. Then people who aren't drug dealers begin to die, heralds of a deep-dyed conspiracy to genetically modify innocuous crops like apples and corn in ways that will make your head spin. Drug dealers, suspect developers, Russian gangsters, mad scientists--Dunston's got them all, and McGoran's debut piles on the menace as if there were no tomorrow, which maybe there isn't. 384pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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