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  • Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

  • An 87th Precinct Novel, Book 11
  • Written by: Ed McBain
  • Narrated by: Dick Hill
  • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

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Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

Written by: Ed McBain
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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Publisher's Summary

He dresses in black and stalks the streets of the 87th Precinct. He is a shadow, always searching for his next victim. And when he finds it, all that will be left is a severed hand.

For Detectives Carella and Hawes, this new killer is an enigma. He leaves no trace of his crime—no evidence at all. Even the severed hands have had their fingertips sheared off. With nothing much to go on, the detectives work off the hunch that the black-clad killer has a grudge against the 87th, and begin a frantic manhunt before any more of his handiwork appears on their streets.

One of world-renowned crime master Ed McBain’s most grisly and intense novels in the famed 87th Precinct series, Give the Boys a Great Big Hand is a finely tuned build-up of brooding malevolence and frantic desperation….

©2011 Ed McBain (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

What the critics say

“Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain’s grand,ongoing accomplishment.” (Entertainment Weekly)
“McBain has the ability to make every character believable — which few writers these days can do.” (Associated Press)

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