The Last Best Hope by Ed Mcbain
Single mum Alexandra McEwan never stays anywhere long enough to call it home. She loves working as a software trainer, but now she has to relocate to the other side of the country. Will the secrets she carries with her, including the identity of her daughter's father, still cause her grief?
A traffic accident involving her daughter Lennie's school bus thrusts Alex into the path of her former lover, now Police Chief Connor Smith. When Lennie goes missing from her hospital bed, Alex and Connor team up to find her.
But what else will Alex discover as she faces down her past?
McBain, Ed: - Ed McBain was a pen name of the successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter. Born in New York, McBain served aboard a destroyer in the US Navy during World War II. After earning a degree from Hunter College and briefly teaching high school, he worked for a New York literary agency; his clients included Arthur C. Clarke and P.G. Wodehouse. In 1954, his novel The Blackboard Jungle was published under his legal name, Evan Hunter. His 87th Precinct series is one of the longest running crime series ever published. McBain was also a screenwriter; he adapted a short story into Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and wrote for Columbo as well as the NBC series based on his books, 87th Precinct. The Mystery Writers of America gave him the Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1986, and he was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain. He passed away in 2005, but his writing remains popular to this day.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780446519908 |
| ISBN 10 | 0446519901 |
| Title | The Last Best Hope |
| Author | Ed Mcbain |
| Series | Matthew Hope Mysteries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 1998-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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