Hard Time : A V. I. Warshawski Novel (V.I. Warshawski Novels Ser.)
by Paretsky, Sara
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New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1999. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. V.I. Warshawski comes back again in this page-turner. Global Entertainment, a multimedia conglomerate, bought the newspaper, the Chicag o Herald-Star---a move that has employees hard-pressed to keep their jobs. A friend and sometime rival of V. I.'s for many years, reporter Murray Ryerson, gets a job on a television show on Global's n etwork. When returning home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V. I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street . This event begins t he most sinister and emotionally draining case. V. I. ha s ever had as she tries to discover why a woman has been beaten up and thrown on the street..
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Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparable character V. I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994's Tunnel Vision. Hard Time is the work of a master--a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably Paretsky's best V.I. Warshawski novel yet. Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. Stopping to help, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive.
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- Hard Time : A V. I. Warshawski Novel (V.I. Warshawski Novels Ser.)
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- Paretsky, Sara
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- Hardcover
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- New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1999
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- CHICAGO ILL FICTION ILLINOIS WARSHAWSKI V I FICTITIOUS CHARACTER MYSTERY DETECTIVE HARD BOILED WOMEN SLEUTHS PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS 0385313632 NOVEL: SUSPENSE
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