Resumo de The Poet - Michael Connelly

The Poet
By Michael Connelly
Little, Brown and Company, 1996
Hardcover, 435 pages
ISBN# 0-316-15398-2

Edgar award-winning author Michael Connelly?s first four novels featuring detective Harry Bosch were first-rate successes (The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde, The Last Coyote). This time around he takes readers into the heart of police corruption and weaves a thriller that revolves around apparent suicide and brotherly love.

Jack McEvoy is a seasoned crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News. Having been on the job for many years he has seen and covered just about any kind of murder from shootings to stabbings to drownings and everything in between. But not even all that he has witnessed prepares him for the shattering News of his brother?s suicide.

Sean McEvoy had been a homicide detective and had for some time been extremely depressed about a heinous murder that he had been unable to solve no matter how hard he tried. All clues had led nowhere. It was believed that his sudden decision to take his own life had come out of his feelings of helplessness where this case had been concerned.

Struggling to come to terms with his brother?s death, Jack decides to write a feature for the paper on police suicides. But shortly after beginning the research phase Jack discovers some inconsistencies that lead him to believe his brother?s suicide was not a suicide after all but cold blooded murder. Could his brother have stumbled upon something that someone would stop at nothing, not even murder to protect?

Jack begins to follow leads that propel him more and more into the upper echelons of the police department and the evil that lurks there. Protecting his trusted sources becomes more and more difficult as it becomes all to clear to this seasoned reporter that nobody is safe.

As he finds his way inside a federal investigation that keeps growing larger by the minute, Jack finds himself and everyone he loves in the heart of danger. What started out as a simple police expose and an investigation into the circumstances of his brother?s death has turned into something that not even Jack knows he can escape from unharmed.

This riveting thriller keeps readers turning page after page at breakneck speed, longing to know the truth. It?s a winner of a crime thriller from start to finish.

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