Bibliograph

Bleeders, a "Nameless Detective" novel, Bill Pronzini

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Label

Bleeders, a "Nameless Detective" novel, Bill Pronzini

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Bleeders

Oclc number

48502616

Responsibility statement

Bill Pronzini

Series statement

Nameless Detective mysteries, 29

Sub title

a "Nameless Detective" novel

Summary

A simple case gets murderously complicated when Nameless, Bill Pronzini's seasoned private-eye, exposes a nasty scam that involves junior account executive Jay Cohalan, his unhappy wife, and a mistress with a serious drug problem. It's the kind of case Nameless likes, because bleeders--the blackmailers, extortionists, small-time grifters, and other opportunists who prey on the weak and gullible--top his list of worthless human parasites. So there's nothing he enjoys more than putting another one or two of them out of commission and returning the $75,000 in blackmail cash to its rightful owner"Nameless, though, cannot so easily close his Cohalan file--not when he finds his client face down in the middle of a four-poster bed with a bloody, powder-scorched hole behind the right ear. And only by a hair's breadth does Nameless himself escape a similar cold-blooded fate. His mind and gut wrenched by his brush with death, Nameless embarks on a relentless hunt for his unknown assailant in San Francisco's shadowy underworld. There he encounters bleeders of every ilk before he finds his quarry--and confronts his own demons--in a climax as powerful as it is shocking and unexpected

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