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    Downtown
    Downtown
    Downtown
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Downtown

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Stephen Macht

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    About this audiobook

    Ed McBain, author of the best-selling 87th Precinct series, takes us Downtown in this harrowing tale of a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York CIty. Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Wall Street bar with a couple of hours to kill. It's a couple of hours that almost kill him, as he's swindled, robbed, framed for murder, and hunted down by an assassin in one of the wildest, scariest, funniest, fastest 24 hours ever packed into one novel.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhoenix Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 1, 1991
    ISBN9781607474746
    Downtown
    Author

    Ed McBain

    Ed McBain has been the recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America. His 87th Precinct novels are international bestsellers. He lives in Connecticut.

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