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    See Them Die
    See Them Die
    See Them Die
    Audiobook6 hours

    See Them Die

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    About this audiobook

    “Kill me if you can.”

    Local thug Pepe Miranda’s open challenge to the police has pushed July’s heat to a boiling point. His latest crime elevated him to the top of the 87th Precinct’s most wanted list, and now his dare is earning him street cred as well. With the city’s most dangerous gangs mobilized for an epic showdown, the fate of the precinct hangs in the balance.

    But Lieutenant Peter Byrnes and his detectives are ready for anything. They certainly aren’t going to let a challenge like that lie—not from someone like Miranda and not when a tip puts them hot on his trail. As the men of the 87th close in, they could be heading into a deadly gunfight that blows their city apart.

    Ed McBain’s See Them Die is a visceral journey into the heart of the 87th Precinct’s meanest streets, a gritty, adrenaline-fueled freight train that hurtles toward its explosive conclusion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 15, 2012
    ISBN9781455873890
    See Them Die
    Author

    Ed McBain

    Ed McBain, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, was also the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series (including the Edgar Award–nominated Money, Money, Money) to the bestselling novels written under his own name, Evan Hunter—including The Blackboard Jungle (now in a fiftieth anniversary edition from Pocket Books) and Criminal Conversation. Fiddlers, his final 87th Precinct novel, was recently published in hardcover. Writing as both Ed McBain and Evan Hunter, he broke new ground with Candyland, a novel in two parts. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He died in 2005. Visit EdMcBain.com.

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    • 5/5
      This book is the perfect example of why McBain's novels attract me more than other run of the mill police procedurals. He takes sensational topics like gang warfare and high profile police shootouts, and finds tension and drama in the lives and motivations of the people both on and off stage.
    • 4/5
      “Heat, like love, is no good unless you can talk about it.”This book is about a lot of things. It's about racism, it's about love, it's about needing to belong. And in the center of it all, it's about Pepe Miranda. The detectives don’t show up until page 26 in this one!It feels like a departure from the other 87th precinct books I've read so far, but a good one! It was nice having the focus on a different aspect of the city. And I liked the way it was written! Chapter twelve, when all of the plot lines smash together, is really well executed!I also found it interesting how much some of the plot lines reminded me of "West Side Story", which I just saw on the big screen last week. I wonder if this book was influenced by the play?
    • 3/5
      The 13th in McBain's long-running (55 books!) series about the copy of the 87th Precinct in Isola, a fictional New York City. This entry takes place over the course of a long, hot July day as the police face off against a murderer who has taken refuge above a brothel in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of the precinct. There are some interesting (and for the 1960 time period fairly progressive) observations about the disconnect the Puerto Rican community feels with the larger city and the cops who patrol their neighborhood, as well as the self-imposed class divisions between the Puerto Ricans who were born in New York Isola and the "Marine Tigers" who are newly arrived immigrants from the island. Unfortunately, the gender issues are not handled with the same progressiveness as the ethnic, and the few women who appear in the book are almost cartoonish in their beauty and sexuality. One of the subplots involves a group of teenagers who dub themselves a gang, The Latin Purples, in an attempt to appear tough and the trouble their posturing gets them into. Not one of the series' best, but not terrible.
    • 5/5
      This book is the perfect example of why McBain's novels attract me more than the run of the mill police procedural. He takes sensational topics like gang warfare and high profile police shootouts, and finds tension and drama in the lives and motivations of the people both on and off stage. At least half of the action in this novel takes place outside of the 87th Precinct, as McBain follows a number of characters whose actions both directly influence the station's attempts to capture high-profile escaped convict and local legend Pepe Miranda, who is holed up in a nearby tenement building. An off-shore sailor, store owner, and ambitious street thug all present us with a day in their life, and provides the reader with in-depth look at the community behind the crime. Much like Ross MacDonald's later works, McBain is taking a more philosophical - perhaps even sociological - look at the origins and "victims" of inner-city crime, effectively blurring some of the lines between the black-and-white.This isn't to say that we don't deal with the boys from the 87th either; Carella and Byrnes are on the scene, as well as Fernandez and Parker, the latter of which is given a more complex character background than his predecessor Roger Havilland. But they do take a backseat to the community itself, so if you are a fan of McBain's more unconventional approaches to the 87th Precinct series, this is definitely one to read.
    • 5/5
      There is a piece left out at the end of the summary- "Not in the sticky July heat of the city with the gangs just itchy with the need to explode onto violence"And that is really what the book is about - heat policemen which dislike each other because of where they come from youths trying to look strong and inportant at all costs. A great book though short.
    • 5/5
      Its a long hot July in the 87th Precinct, the street gangs are more trigger-happy than usual, are they being influenced by Pepe Miranda, the worst kind of local hero who is holed up somewhere...can the boys in blue smoke him out?