description: Ed McBain, author of the bestselling 87th Precinct series, takes us "Downtown" in a bold departure of a novel that will have listeners cheering for a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York City. Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Manhattan bar with a couple of hours to kill. It's a couple of hours that almost kill him, as he's swindled, robbed, framed for murder, and hunted down by an assassin in one of the wildest, scariest, funniest, fastest twenty-four hours ever packed into one novel.
language: English
title: Downtown
titlecomplete: Downtown
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Humor, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 540
places: New York City, New York, New York (State)
publisher: Unabridged Library Edition