description: When a wealthy businessman is faced with a kidnapping, the ransom could ruin his biggest deal ever ? unless Detective Steve Carella can find the culprits before the kidnapping turns to murder. McBain has the ability to make every character believable ? which few writers these days can do.? ? Associated Press McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet?even those we thought we already knew." ? New York Times Book Review
title: King's Ransom
titlecomplete: King's Ransom (Oxford Bookworms Library)
characters: Meyer Meyer, Cotton Hawes, Steve Carella
genres: Fiction, Pulp, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Police, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 1915
series: 87th Precinct
publisher: Oxford University Press