The Crooked Street
- Автор: Фриман Брайан
- Серия: Frost Easton #3
- Год: 2019
- Язык: английский
- Год: Thomas & Mercer
- ISBN: 978-1-5039-0094-3
- Жанр: Криминальные детективы
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To find the answer, Frost reaches into a nest of vipers — San Francisco’s shady elite — where the whispered name of Lombard is just one secret. Now, drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with an enemy who knows his every move, Frost finds there is no one he can trust. And somewhere down the crooked streets of the city, Frost’s cunning adversary is coiled and ready to strike again.
That includes the case of Tim Holley. Last year, Holley stepped off the curb on California Street across from Tadich Grill and was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver. Holley was a stockbroker and whistleblower who had been planning to testify about insider trading schemes at three of the city’s largest banks. Now the SEC investigation has stalled.
An ordinary traffic accident? The police don’t think so. In fact, sources inside the police are sure they know who was behind the hit-and-run. “Lombard did it,” says one of the department’s homicide inspectors with knowledge of the case.
No one in the police or city hall would speak on the record about Lombard, but the picture they paint is of a ruthless criminal who operates at the behest of the powerful...