Salvation Boulevard, Larry Beinhart
Salvation Boulevard, Larry Beinhart
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Salvation Boulevard
A Novel

Author: Larry Beinhart

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 11 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/22/2011

Synopsis

Ahmad Nazami is an Iranian-born Muslim, accused of murdering his professor. Left behind at the crime scene are a few pages of a manuscript that claimed to disprove the existence of God. The rest of it—gone missing. Carl Vanderveer is a PI hired by one of the best criminal lawyers in town to investigate Nazami's case. Once he'd been a cop, with a life spiraling out of control. Then Pastor Paul Plowright brought him to Jesus. Now all Carl wants is to live clean and straight, with his daughter and his wife (his third, the good one, that came after Jesus), and do his job. But as he gets deeper into the investigation of the murdered professor, his most basic beliefs and relationships are tried and his world is turned upside down.

About Larry Beinhart

Larry Beinhart is best known as the author of Wag the Dog (originally published as American Hero), on which the film starring Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, and Woody Harrelson was based. His No One Rides for Free received the 1987 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Beinhart spent two years in Oxford, England, where he was the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellow at Wadham College. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the Chicago Tribune. Beinhart worked for AlJazeera English and on the TV news magazine show Empire as a writer/producer/director. He resides in Woodstock, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather on November 05, 2008

i wanted to like this book a lot. religion? murder? mystery? disenfranchisement? by the guy who wrote Wag the Dog? sign me up! i was bored the first 3rd of the book. i kept going, hoping things would improve. and they did, but not by a lot. there was no real mystery, and the plot was generally very o......more

Goodreads review by Judith on July 10, 2018

No particularly likeable characters, plot has loose ends. And all right is two words; alright is akin to alwrong.......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on July 19, 2010

I was drawn to this book because I was an extra in the movie version filmed this summer in Michigan (stars Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei). The movie is billed as a comedy/thriller but after reading this book I'm guessing that the screenplay takes definite l......more

Goodreads review by Chris on November 04, 2008

An atheist professor murdered, an Muslim student framed for the crime, a born-again christian detective trying to get to the truth which implicates members of his own mega-church. This is the basic idea behind this religious murder mystery that is really a cover for a liberal secular attack on conser......more

Goodreads review by Chris on November 03, 2008

An atheist professor murdered, an Muslim student framed for the crime, a born-again christian detective trying to get to the truth which implicates members of his own mega-church. This is the basic idea behind this religious murder mystery that is really a cover for a liberal secular attack on cons......more

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