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A Common Ordinary Murder is a gripping story of crime and punishment; it is also the drama of one man?s test of love and strength.
Random House
August 2008
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Featuring: Steven McCord
320 pages
ISBN: 1400066905
EAN: 9781400066902
Hardcover
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In the Chicago Tribune, Alan Cheuse described Donald
Pfarrer’s novel The Fearless Man as “the gold standard for
any other fiction to come out about the [Vietnam] war.”
Now, in this new novel, Pfarrer presents another kind of
war, the one in America’s streets, with the same kind of
excitement, style, and power. Steven McCord, a lieutenant of police in a fairly large
midwestern city, has been coarsened by twenty years’
exposure to violence and cruelty. At forty-two, he has
reached a crossroads in his career and in his life. He’s
been entrusted with command of one of his city’s toughest
districts, and as a senior lieutenant, he is poised for
promotion to captain. But instead he’s studying law–because
he wants out. His old mentor, Sergeant Hughes, fears that
McCord will soon enter into that most contemptible of all
legal specialties, criminal defense. McCord denies it, but
in truth he doesn’t know exactly where he’s going to end up. Then comes the “common ordinary murder” of an old eccentric–
a resident of McCord’s district–and with it a personal
crisis for McCord. Having given up on God long ago, he now
seems to be losing faith in humanity as well. But something
about the case draws him, against his will, deeper into the
lives of the victim and his family, pulling McCord back to
a place where he will know again the passion and pain of
being alive. Written in the intense, clear-cut style that is Donald
Pfarrer’s trademark, A Common Ordinary Murder is a gripping
story of crime and punishment; it is also the drama of one
man’s test of love and strength.
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