The Big Boom
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Published: May 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312324704
Subjects: Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery fiction; North Beach (San Francisco, Calif.); Police, Private; Mystery/Suspense
First sentence: It was the time of the big boom and everyone figured the prosperity would last forever.
Description: "The Big Boom features the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon, an obsessive private investigator working the streets of his San Francisco neighborhood. He is a dark-eyed, complex figure---melancholic, tender, with fierce, aquiline good looks---known to neighborhood familiars by his nickname: the Pelican. Dante's nickname---like the demons that haunt his personal life---comes from his family on account of his tenacity, and his large, Sicilian nose."--The publisher.