Gas City: A Novel (Tom Doherty Associates Books)

Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces―greed and corruption ambition and desire―run out of control in the wake of a serial killers grisly rampage.. A power struggle―between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long a Mafia boss who holds the citys vices in his powerful grasp and media reporters looking for a big story―turns what has been a minor dispute into a desperate struggle for survival.. Setting this drama Gas City in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an oil company Estleman with an unerring eye for telling detail and an ear for dialogue that reveals the secret desires of his characters crafts a fascinating deadly tapestry of love ambition revenge and redemption a stunning portrait of the human condition.