num_pages: 172
description: Half a million dollars – or a boy’s life . . .But what if that boy isn’t your own son? And what if paying the ransom will ruin the biggest deal you ever made? What do you do then? Throw away your future or sacrifice someone else’s child? That was the dilemma facing wealthy Douglas King.Detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct can only keep trying to find the kidnappers, and hope that Doug King will decide to give them the payoff. Because if he doesn’t, Carella will have a case of cold-blooded murder on his hands.
language: English
title: King's Ransom
titlecomplete: King's Ransom (87th Precinct #10)
characters: Cotton Hawes, Meyer Meyer, Steve Carella
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Pulp, Thriller, 20th Century, Police, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Detective, Noir
ratings_count: 1915
series: 87th Precinct
publisher: Berkley