num_pages: 177
description: After twenty-one years on the detective beat, aging veteran P.I. Dave Brandstetter is finally going to get some rest--that is, after one last case. Even though he is no longer able to sprint after the bad guys like he used to, Brandstetter is not stopped from investigating this wild tale of kidnapping and murder told by a bruised and grubby little boy found wandering the beach alone. The police don't even believe the kid--just as they don't believe that the drug-related shooting death of a pop guitarist in anything out of the ordinary. So Dave is lured out of retirement to confront street drugs, powerful politicians, sleazy record executives, child abuse.and to unravel as snarled a tangle of carnage and deception as he's ever faced.
language: English
title: A Country of Old Men
titlecomplete: A Country of Old Men (Dave Brandstetter, #12)
characters: Dave Brandstetter
genres: Fiction, Historical, M M Romance, Mystery, Queer, LGBT, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Gay, Suspense
ratings_count: 251
series: Dave Brandstetter
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Mystery
publisher: Viking