Riding the Snake
Stephen J. Cannell
Riding the Snake - HarperCollins Publishers - 416 pages
The master of fast-paced, action-packed suspense, Stephen J. Cannell, the Emmy Award-winning creator of "The Rockford Files, "The A-Team", and "Wiseguy", and the author of King Con, Final Victim and The Plan, delivers his most heart-stopping thriller yet -- a riveting tale of a brother's quest for justice.Revenge Becomes a Brother's ObligationA Beverly Hills golden boy whose glow is fading, Wheeler assidy, an aimless, hard-drinking womanizer, is partying toward dissipation. But after his brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous journey to find himself and the Chinese gangsters who murdered the only member of his family he ever really loved. Along the way, he teams up with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful African-American detective raised in Watts and now assigned to the L.A.P.D. Asian Crimes Task Force. The two make an unlikely pair, but together they face the violence and corruption that stretches from Hong Kong's notorious criminal Triad to the highest reaches of the American government. It's an international conspiracy of huge proportions that will take Wheeler and Tanisha halfway around the world and into the most dangerous adventure of their lives...
9780380800162
42140938
97049674
Mystery
PS3553.A4995
813.54
Riding the Snake - HarperCollins Publishers - 416 pages
The master of fast-paced, action-packed suspense, Stephen J. Cannell, the Emmy Award-winning creator of "The Rockford Files, "The A-Team", and "Wiseguy", and the author of King Con, Final Victim and The Plan, delivers his most heart-stopping thriller yet -- a riveting tale of a brother's quest for justice.Revenge Becomes a Brother's ObligationA Beverly Hills golden boy whose glow is fading, Wheeler assidy, an aimless, hard-drinking womanizer, is partying toward dissipation. But after his brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous journey to find himself and the Chinese gangsters who murdered the only member of his family he ever really loved. Along the way, he teams up with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful African-American detective raised in Watts and now assigned to the L.A.P.D. Asian Crimes Task Force. The two make an unlikely pair, but together they face the violence and corruption that stretches from Hong Kong's notorious criminal Triad to the highest reaches of the American government. It's an international conspiracy of huge proportions that will take Wheeler and Tanisha halfway around the world and into the most dangerous adventure of their lives...
9780380800162
42140938
97049674
Mystery
PS3553.A4995
813.54