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Fat Ollie's Book

A Novel of the 87th Precinct (Paperback)

By Ed McBain

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780743410335

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All at once, Fat Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea...

But as any real writer could tell you, that's how inspiration strikes -- with the sudden force of a violent crime. Known more for his foul mouth and short temper than his way with words, Detective Weeks has written a novelContinue

All at once, Fat Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea...

But as any real writer could tell you, that's how inspiration strikes -- with the sudden force of a violent crime. Known more for his foul mouth and short temper than his way with words, Detective Weeks has written a novel. But just as Isola is rocked by the murder of a mayoral candidate, the only copy of Ollie's manuscript is stolen -- and an all-too-real adventure begins as a thief follows Ollie's fictional blueprint to find a $2 million cache of nonexistent diamonds. Now, the 87th Precinct races to bring poetic justice to a cold-blooded assassin -- and someone's about to add another chapter to the colorful career of Ollie Weeks, a cop who's never played by the book....

Critics

  • NYPD blues

    Fat Ollie's Book by Ed McBain 271pp, Orion, £12.99 Academics would describe what happens in the latest Ed McBain book as intertextuality - although its hero, the super-fat Manhattan cop Ollie Weeks, would flap his latest slize of pizza dismissively a ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Heist society

    Fat Ollie's Book by Ed McBain Orion £12.99, pp320 Back in the early Fifties, before he became a full-time writer, Ed McBain worked in a literary agency that had PG Wodehouse among its clients. Strange as it might sound, he and Wodehouse became friend ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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