num_pages: 236
description: THE HEROES OF THE CITY'S STREETS BECOME THE HUNTED -- IN THIS CRIME FICTION CLASSIC ED MCBAIN'S FIRST 87 th PRECINCT NOVEL Swift, silent, and deadly -- someone is knocking off the 87th Precinct's finest, one by one. The how of the killings is three .45 shots from the dark add up to one, two, three very dead detectives. The why and the who are the Precinct's headaches now. When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is, until a third detective buys it. With one meager clue, Detective Steve Carella begins his grim search for the killer, a search that takes him into the city's underworld to a notorious brothel, to the apartment of a beautiful and dangerous widow, and finally to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head....
language: English
title: Cop Hater
titlecomplete: Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)
characters: Hank Bush, Steve Carella
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Police, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 7557
series: 87th Precinct
publisher: Pocket Books