General Information
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 Title:                  Hidden River
 Author:                 Adrian McKinty
 Read By:                Gerard Doyle
 Copyright:              2005
 Audiobook Copyright:    2005
 Genre:                  Thriller
 Publisher:              Blackstone Audio
 Abridged:               No

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 Media:                  CDs
 Number:                 10
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Very Good

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Book Description
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Alexander Lawson is a former detective for Northern Ireland's police 
force and a rising star at cracking difficult cases. After he is assigned 
to the force's dangerous, corruption-ridden drug squad, he becomes addicted 
to heroin - under unusual circumstances. Forced to resign in disgrace, 
Alex is twenty-four and still entrapped by the needle when he learns 
that his high school love, beautiful Victoria Patawasti, has been murdered 
in drought-scorched Denver, Colorado." "Victoria's family begs Alex 
to investigate the case, and he seizes the opportunity to fly to America 
for a chance at redemption." Soon the bodies begin to pile up, and Alex 
is forced to go on the run after the only credible lead to Victoria's 
murderer is accidentally killed. Wanted by both the Colorado cops and 
the British police, who believe he has information about a corruption 
scandal, and with the murderer closing in all the time, Alex will have 
to fight just to stay alive, never mind solving the terrifying case. 

FROM THE CRITICS
Marilyn Stasio - The New York Times
… despite a fondness for soul-searching lyricism, whenever he looks 
up from his navel, Alex views the dark side of the modern West with 
cool, merciless clarity.

Library Journal
McKinty's third novel tells the tale of Alex Lawson, once a Royal Ulster 
Constabulary (RUC) detective sergeant, who finds himself independently 
investigating the murder of a former girlfriend in Colorado. Wanted 
by a corrupt segment of the RUC-as well as by the special investigator 
looking into the corruption-Lawson travels to America to escape his 
untenable situation in Belfast. Things go tragically wrong when an informant 
falls to his death while Alex and his traveling partner and best friend, 
John, are interviewing him. They go into hiding, and in order to feed 
himself and his heroin habit, Alex gets a job with a right-wing environmental 
group run by Charles Mulholland, the chief suspect. This allows him 
to continue the murder investigation, but he falls for Charles's wife, 
also implicated in the murder. After John is mistakenly killed in his 
place, Alex decides to get revenge on the Mulhollands and, in the end, 
is the only one who emerges relatively unscathed in this darkly comic 
and fast-paced story. Recommended for crime-story buffs in any library 
setting.-Lisa Hanson O'Hara, Univ. of Manitoba Libs., Winnipeg Copyright 
2004 Reed Business Information. 

Kirkus Reviews
Lots of good reasons for ex-cop Alex Lawson to flee Northern Ireland 
for Denver-a search for his lover's murderer is only second best. Put 
self-preservation at the top of the list. Suddenly, the woods around 
Carrickfergus, Alex's hometown, are full of hard guys who take a jaundiced 
view of him. There's Spider McKeenan, for instance, Alex's snarling, 
vengeful dealer, who wants the 40 quid he's owed for the bag of hutch 
Alex scored off him ("hutch" is Irish street talk for heroin, Alex's 
addiction). There's Commander Douglas of London's Metropolitan Police, 
who's made the trip to Carrickfergus because he needs Alex to rat out 
certain former colleagues in the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Implacable 
in behalf of something called the Samson Inquiry-an attempt at internal 
clean-up-the hulking, ice-eyed copper scares the daylights out of Alex, 
who knows that his "former colleagues" will be gunning for him because 
they think he'll crack and sing. And well he might, Alex being admittedly 
not the stuff of which heroes are made. Between a rock and a hard place, 
Alex would dearly love to be able to make himself scarce, but self-contained, 
parochial Carrickfergus isn't a place where magic of that sort is readily 
worked. Still, eager to find greener pastures, he persuades the family 
Patawasti of Carrickfergus (by way of India) that their daughter Victoria's 
death in Denver was a homicide, that he has the sleuthing skills to 
solve it, and that he should be hired to do so. In the process, he persuades 
himself that honor demands he take on the burden. Stateside he goes, 
where what awaits is enough to drench Carrickfergus in nostalgia. A 
disappointment after last year's splendid Dead I Well May Be asstylistic 
panache loses to over-the-top plotting. Agent: Bob Mecoy/Creative Book 
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