num_pages: 308
description: Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valley and in his newest case a seemingly simple murder investigation leads him to the most terrifying enemy he has ever facedWhen a small-time criminal named Harold Lee turns up in the Ashokan reservoir--sans a heartbeat head or hands--the local mafia capo hires Isaiah Coleridge to look into the matter. The mob likes crime but only the crime it controls . . . and as it turns out Lee is the second independent contractor to meet a bad end on the business side of a serrated knife. One such death can be overlooked. Two makes a man wonder.A guy in Harold Lee's business would make his fair share of enemies and it seems a likely case of pure revenge. But as Coledrige turns over more stones he finds himself dragged into something deeper and more insidious than he could have imagined in a labyrinthine case spanning decades. At the center are an heiress moonlighting as a cabaret dancer a powerful corporation with high-placed connections and a serial killer who may have been honing his skills since the Vietnam War. . .A twisty action-packed follow-up to the acclaimed Blood Standard Black Mountain cements Laird Barron as an inventive and remarkable voice in crime fiction.
language: English
title: Black Mountain
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons