RUNAWAY MAN: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 03880011B47639
English Summary/英文概要： It’s amazing what you find out about people when you find out about people…
RUNAWAY MAN, the first in a new series featuring a nice Jewish boy working for his mother’s PI firm in New York City
Benji lives and works in New York City. He’s 25 but looks younger. He’s exactly one-quarter inch shy of five feet six, weighs a buck thirty-seven and is exceedingly baby faced. But he’s plenty feisty. He has to be. He’s a licensed private investigator who works out of a not-so elegant office on the corner of West 103rd St. and Broadway that he shares with two ex-strippers, one of whom is his mom. Benji’s dad was a celebrity hero cop who taught Benji most of what he knows. The rest is pure talent. Benji is a specialist who happens to be very, very good at what he does. In fact, he’s the best there is in all of New York City. You’ll just have to take my word for that until you get a chance to read RUNAWAY MAN for yourself.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 百轉千迴的劇情，讓你瞠目結舌直到最後一頁 原本只是單純的尋人委託
卻成為一連串事件的引信
每個角色都不如表面所見
真相隱藏在層層面具之下
隨著調查，偵探Benji發現自己漸漸陷入萬劫不復的深淵…
繁華的紐約，位於百老匯與103大街的交叉口，藏著一家小小私家偵探事務所。
這家事務所成員有：
Benji : 25歲的娃娃臉偵探，跟蹤和尋人是他的強項，天份來自受市民敬重的警察父親
Abby : Benji 的母親，偵探所老闆
Rita : Abby的前同事，本領高強的網路駭客
在紐約經營偵探事務所很困難，競爭對手又強，他們的生活常捉襟見肘，但就在此時接到一筆錢多事少的好康差事…
委託人是衣著體面的Peter，他來自紐約知名法律事務所，案件內容是尋找一位21歲的大學生Bruce。原來Bruce繼承一大筆遺產，Peter得找到Bruce執行遺囑，但卻完全聯絡不到他。Peter叮囑這項任務的緊急程度，要求他們保密，付了一大筆酬勞，但卻神秘地不肯說明原因。
Benji原以為只是個單純的尋人案件，卻發現事件如雪球般越滾越大，每個人似乎不如表面所見，都有不為人知的一面…如同Benji的警察老爸所說：「當調查出別人的底細時，事實往往出乎意料！」而他也深陷其中，無法脫身…
愛倫坡獎得主David Handler在此書中使用大量對話勾勒情節，穿插偵探故事特有的精細觀察力敘述。
故事節奏快速，情節百轉千折，處處讓讀者瞠目結舌！(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：愛倫坡獎(Edgar Award)及美國推理獎(American Mystery Award)得主David Handler Publishers Marketplace:
Edgar Award winner David Handler’s RUNAWAY MAN, the first in a new series featuring a nice Jewish boy working for his mother’s PI firm in New York City, specializing in finding missing young people, to Toni Plummer (http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/login.php/dealmakers/detail.cgi%3Fid%3D4407) at Thomas Dunne Books (http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/login.php/dealmakers/detail.cgi%3Fid%3D2578)
THE MAN WHO DIED LAUGHING (1988). The third in the series, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, (1990) won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.
About the Author/作者介绍： David Handler, who began his career in New York as a journalist, was born and raised in Los Angeles and published two highly acclaimed novels about growing up there, Kiddo and Boss, before resorting to a life of crime fiction.
He has written eight novels about the witty and dapper celebrity ghostwriter Stewart Hoag and his faithful, neurotic basset hound, Lulu, including the Edgar and American Mystery Award-winning The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald.
He has also written six novels featuring the mismatched crime-fighting duo of New York film critic Mitch Berger and Connecticut State trooper Desiree Mitry. His first Berger-Mitry novel, The Cold Blue Blood, was a Dilys Award finalist and Book Sense Top Ten pick. His latest standalone, Click to Play, was published in December 2009 and the newest Berger-Mitry, The Shimmering Blond Sister, was released in October of 2010.
David Handler從小在洛杉磯成長，曾在紐約當記者，之後毅然投入犯罪作家的寫作生涯。
他著有兩部系列作品，《Hoagy & Lulu》神秘小說系列講述怪談作家Stewart Hoag與他的巴吉度獵犬Lulu的故事，其中《The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald》獲得愛倫坡獎(Edgar Award)以及美國推理獎(American Mystery Award)。另一部系列作品《Berger & Mitry》的第一集《The Cold Blue Blood》曾進入黛利絲獎(Dilys Award)決選。
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