Summary:

New York City's hot-wired East Village: From Avenue A to Avenue D,
Alphabet City is a magnet for all-night revelers, actors, musicians,
and artists. But it's also a lair for desperate hustlers, con men,
and last-chance addicts.Just part of the scene East of A.Payton
Sherwood knows that scene. He lives it daily. But Payton also lives
by a creed derived from the white-knight heroes of Golden Age
detective fiction. And like those renowned hardboiled private eyes,
he is riddled with loss--the loss of an old love who still exists in
daydreams, and the loss of a city he barely recognizes.Payton returns
to the Lower East Side after a short absence to find himself an
outsider. When he takes a wrong turn on a side street, he stumbles
into trouble in the form of three bull-necked heavies and a tough
sixteen-year-old runaway named Gloria Manlow. After taking a savage
beating, Payton is robbed of his Rolex watch and left bleeding on the
sidewalk.For Payton, trying to retrieve his three-thousand-dollar
wristwatch has its perils. So does tracking Gloria, whose trail
zigzags from a stray dog to a psycho boyfriend to an ice-hearted
killer.Following clues both hot and cold, Payton winds his way
through Alphabet City--in and out of trendy after-hour dives, across
barrio tenements and vacant lots where the homeless camp, and finally
on a descent into a nightclub in a defunct church: the Hellhole.
Here, the shadows that frighten aren't those that shade the street,
but rather the soul. Payton's dusk-to-dawn nightmare on the wild side
is about to begin--and nothing will stop it but death.There may be
millions of stories in the Naked City, but few are as riveting as the
one Russell Atwood tells. A black-lit, neo-noir urban thriller, East
of A is a bloody valentine to classic detective fiction--and an
original hard-drive narrative so seductive and compelling it takes
the reader hostage and never lets go.

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Dewey Class: 813 -- Fiction

Book Details:

Physical Description: 6.6"x9.4"x1.3"; 0.8 lb
Edition Info: Audio Cassette; 2002-08

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