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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148642003321

Autore

Ide Joe

Titolo

IQ / / Joe Ide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Mulholland Books, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-316-26771-6

0-316-26980-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 pages)

Collana

An IQ Novel ; ; v.1

Classificazione

FIC050000FIC051000FIC030000FIC019000

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

Private investigators

Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Welcome -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Unlicensed and Underground -- Chapter Two: Everything -- Chapter Three: Where's My Samitch, Bitch? -- Chapter Four: The Hatchet Man -- Chapter Five: That's Where the Best Dreams Are -- Chapter Six: Burnout -- Chapter Seven: Kill on Sight -- Chapter Eight: Jiffy Lube -- Chapter Nine: Game Bred -- Chapter Ten: Pet City -- Chapter Eleven: Lucky -- Chapter Twelve: Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye -- Chapter Thirteen: Is That You? -- Chapter Fourteen: You Can Make Anything Run -- Chapter Fifteen: When We Ride on Our Enemies -- Chapter Sixteen: I'm Not Doing It -- Chapter Seventeen: Die, Bitch -- Chapter Eighteen: The Inside Man -- Chapter Nineteen: One Damn Bullet -- Chapter Twenty: R.I.P. -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Discover More Joe Ide -- About the Author -- Copyright.

Sommario/riassunto

"A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores.  East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch.  They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless



determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay.  This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. As Isaiah investigates, he encounters a vengeful ex-wife, a crew of notorious cutthroats, a monstrous attack dog, and a hit man who even other hit men say is a lunatic. The deeper Isaiah digs, the more far reaching and dangerous the case becomes"--