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A PI scours Detroit for a newscaster's missing son: "[Estleman] remains among the top echelon of American private-eye specialists" (The New York Times).On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a ten-thousand-watt smile, and the God-given ability to banter with weathermen until his ears fall off. But when the cameras turn off, he has a private problem: His twenty-year old son, Bud, has disappeared. Amos Walker is going to find him.
The boy show more and his junkie girlfriend are both gone, and Broderick is terrified—not for his son, but for his career. The station is about to do an exposé on drugs in Detroit, and the newscaster doesn't want his boy's addict girlfriend to get in the way of his Pulitzer. This new client may be sleazy, but Walker handles scum for a living, and it's time to go to work.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author's personal collection.
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An ambitious, divorced Detroit newscaster hires Amos Walker to locate his missing, estranged son. Through his ex-wife and step-sister, Amos gets connected to the affluent Grosse Pointe drug scene, their dealer, and the son’s mysterious girlfriend. Then, she shows up at Walker’s office because she found the missing son murdered in their kitchen, and wants his help to escape across the border (to Windsor, Ontario), clearly running from something. Along the way, Walker duels with good cops, bad cops, crooked DAs, clueless Feds, and a scary, accomplished hitman, who ties into the story in an interesting and unexpected way. Walker is a gritty, but witty P.I.
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Loren D. Estleman was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 15, 1952. He received a B.A. in English literature and journalism from Eastern Michigan University in 1974. He spent several years as a reporter on the police beat before leaving to write full time in 1980. He wrote book reviews for such newspapers as The New York Times and The show more Washington Post and contributed articles to such periodicals as TV Guide. He is a writer of mysteries and westerns. His first novel was published in 1976 and since then he has published more than 70 books including the Amos Walker series, Writing the Popular Novel, Roy and Lillie: A Love Story, The Confessions of Al Capone, and a The Branch and the Scaffold. He received four Shamus Awards from the Private Eye Writers of America, five Golden Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement from Western Writers of America, and the Michigan Author's Award in 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) He lives in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Glass Highway
- Original title
- The glass highway
- Alternate titles
- Dope à Détroit
- Original publication date
- 1987
- People/Characters
- Amos Walker
- Important places*
- Détroit
- First words*
- Je montre ma carte d'identité au gardien du parc de stationnement; il se penche un peu en dehors de son guichet pour la regarder de plus près.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)J'avale de l'alcool et regarde la neige recouvrir l'étendue vitreuse qui se perd dans la nuit.
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