He Who Hesitates, Ed McBain
He Who Hesitates, Ed McBain
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He Who Hesitates

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2012

Synopsis

Roger Broome is in the city to sell the woodenwares he and his brother handcrafted in their shop upstate—and he does so with stunning success. To celebrate, he goes out to enjoy the fruits of his labor and winds up in a bar, where he meets Molly. They have a few drinks and then head back to his room.Now Molly is dead, and only Roger knows what happened.The men at the 87th would surely love to get that information from Roger…if they even knew he had it. While Roger wants to report what he knows to the detectives, he struggles to reach out to them when a Spanish beauty named Amelia makes him forget everything else in his life. And with each missed opportunity, Roger delays justice from being served.One of the 87th Precinct series’ more gripping and psychologically intense installments, He Who Hesitates is bestselling author Ed McBain at his finest as he delivers a brooding, suspenseful thriller Newsday hails as “a tour de force!”

About Ed McBain

Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005). Debuting in 1956, the popular 87th Precinct is one of the longest running crime series ever published, featuring over fifty novels, and is hailed as “one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” McBain was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986 by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on March 02, 2014

This is, by far, the strangest of the books in Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series, at least among the ones I’ve read thus far. While the story takes place within the confines of the precinct, only a couple of the detectives who normally populate these stories make even a cameo appearance, and they hav......more

Goodreads review by Glen on July 11, 2024

I have to say that this is the worst book in the series for me so far. A rural man who is trying to sell woodcrafts. He has to go to the police station, but can't quite bring himself to do it. Pretty dull.......more

Goodreads review by Gary on February 08, 2024

One of the weaker books in the series. The cops of the 87th are consigned to cameo appearances. The story centers on a character trying to decide whether or not to go to 87th to discuss a matter. The next book, Doll, is not available in Ebook format. I do not have it in paperback either.......more

Goodreads review by Monica on May 17, 2009

This book drove me nuts! I kept reading and hoping it would get better. It didn't, and it drove me to distraction.......more

Goodreads review by Rob on July 25, 2024

What makes this series of the 97th precinct brilliant is that it's not just taking a character(s) and reusing them over and over again in similar settings with similar stories. McBain has the writing bravery to move out, around, over and under and provide an objective view of all of the precinct and......more

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