will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Hard Time is the work of a master-a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably Paretsky's best V.I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994's Tunnel Vision. This book is her best. Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparable character V. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peerand Hard Time proves it once again.Chicago Tribune Terrific.
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