City of strangers : a Jack Liffey mystery / John Shannon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shannon, John, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liffey, Jack (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Liffey, Jack (Fictitious character).

Nuclear terrorism--Fiction.

Nuclear terrorism.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

265 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Carroll and Graf edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003.

Summary:

In the sixth novel of the series that the Philadelphia Inquirer calls "lean and literate" and that Tom Nolan in OC Metro praises for "bizarre details and well-handled action that make John Shannon one of the most interesting and exciting detective-fiction writers on the California scene, " Jack Liffey probes the complex ethnic mix -- Muslim, Jewish, Baha'i, Christian, and secular -- of the Persian communities in Los Angeles. A gripping tale that confronts youthful idealism with perfervid fundamentalism, it lands bright, earnest Fariborz Bayat, who has gone missing from an elite L.A. high school with three other Persian-American boys, in a cell of Arab terrorists. Hired to find the boys, Liffey finds himself in a nightmare, unless he and Fariborz can thwart the cell's plot to set off a dirty bomb full of radioactive waste high over L.A.

Notes:

"An Otto Penzler book."

ISBN:

0786711639 :

OCLC:

51986718