The Pusher, Ed McBain
The Pusher, Ed McBain
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The Pusher

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Ed McBain

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/15/2014

Synopsis

A bitterly cold night offers up a body turned blue—not frozen, but swinging from a rope in a dank basement. The dead teen seems like a clear case of suicide, but Detective Steve Carella and Lieutenant Peter Byrnes find a few facts out of place, and an autopsy confirms their suspicions. The boy hadn’t hung himself but OD’d on heroin before an unknown companion strung him up to hide the true cause of death. The revelation dredges up enough muck to muddy the waters of what should’ve been an open-and-shut case. To find the answers to a life gone off the rails, Carella and Byrnes face a deep slog into the community of users and pushers—but a grim phone call discloses that very community already has its claws in a cop’s son. A new pusher is staking a claim right under the 87th Precinct’s noses, and it’s up to Carella and Byrnes to snag the viper before it poisons their whole lives.

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 Gary on January 13, 2019

Some really wonderful writing in what was supposed to the end of McBain's 3 book series, he went on to write 52 more.......more

Goodreads review by James on September 11, 2012

On a bitterly cold night a police patrolman finds a young Hispanic drug dealer dead in a basement apartment. There's a rope around the boy's neck, tied to the bars over the window. There's also a used syringe on the table next to the body. It's such a miserable effort to disguise a murder as a suici......more

Goodreads review by Deb on November 12, 2019

A not infrequent occurrence in any city on any day in the modern era: A junkie is found dead in his apartment with a used syringe on the floor next to him. The detectives of the 87th Precinct might have consigned this case to a shelf pronto were it not for the noose around the victim's neck, giving......more

Goodreads review by Dorothy on October 16, 2014

Now this is more like it! It seems for years I've been reading about the 87th Precinct series - what a groundbreaker it was and how Ed McBain has been such an influence on writers of mysteries since the 1950s when this series started. But after reading the first two entries in the series, I confess......more

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai on April 08, 2025

Shockingly schlocky story about drug dealers and the police at 87th precinct. The plot is ludicrous. I don't enjoy gore. And I don't like rabbits pulled out of a hat in this type of book. If this experimental thing had garnered success, then I don't know if I want to read further. The only thing tha......more

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