George Pelecanos' biggest novel ever: the haunting story of three cops?one good, one bad, one broken?and the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making.
Grand Central Publishing
August 2007
On Sale: August 1, 2007
Featuring: Gus Ramone
464 pages ISBN: 0446619213 EAN: 9780446619219 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs
investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent
Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local
teenager named Asa, whose body has been found in a local
community garden.
The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone worked
as a patrol cop twenty years earlier, when he and his
partner, Dan "Doc" Holiday, assisted a legendary detective
named T. C. Cook. The series of murders, all involving local
teenage victims, was never solved. In the years since,
Holiday has left the force under a cloud of morals charges,
and now finds work as a bodyguard and driver. Cook has
retired, but he has never stopped agonizing about the "Night
Gardener" killings.
The new case draws the three men together on a grim mission
to finish the work that has haunted them for years. All the
love, regret, and anger that once burned between them comes
rushing back, and old ghosts walk once more as the men try
to lay to rest the monster who has stalked their dreams.
Bigger and even more unstoppable than his previous
thrillers, George Pelecanos achieves in The Night Gardener
what his brilliant career has been building toward: a novel
that is a perfect union of suspense, character, and
unstoppable fate.
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