The Ice Harvest
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: October 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780345440198
Subjects: Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Fiction; Mystery & Detective - General; Fiction / General; Literary
First sentence: At four-fifteen on a cold, dry Christmas Eve a nervous middle-aged man in an expensive overcoat walked bare-headed into the Midtown Tap Room and stood at the near end of the bar with his membership card in hand, waiting for the afternoon barmaid to get off the phone.