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The True Detective

by Theodore Weesner
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The True Detective, Gil Dulac, is a small town police investigator who sees his sleepy city of Portsmouth, NH, being infested with a sexual pathology that, in its breadth of depravity, is breaking out like a pandemic.</p><p><p>It's no surprise to Dulac then, when a twelve-year-old boy turns up missing. Child abduction grips the city, along with Dulac's obsessive sense of justice. Now, as the clock winds down on a horrifying reality, Dulac must use his wits, his resolve and his deepest life experiences to recover the boy alive.</p><p><p>In the spirit of Truman Capote's, In Cold Blood, Weesner takes the reader deep into the conflicting desires and motivations of a broken family, a sexually confused perpetrator, and an immensely complex investigating detective, to create a lightning-fast literary thriller that is both powerful and heartbreakingly realistic.</p><p><p>Weesner's, unflinching insight and master storytelling combine to create a rare breed of novel: An absolute page-turner that rises to the level of great American literature.
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Publisher: Astor + Blue Editions Edition: 1

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  • ISBN: 9781938231094
  • Release date: February 12, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781938231094
  • File size: 893 KB
  • Release date: February 12, 2013

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The True Detective, Gil Dulac, is a small town police investigator who sees his sleepy city of Portsmouth, NH, being infested with a sexual pathology that, in its breadth of depravity, is breaking out like a pandemic.</p><p><p>It's no surprise to Dulac then, when a twelve-year-old boy turns up missing. Child abduction grips the city, along with Dulac's obsessive sense of justice. Now, as the clock winds down on a horrifying reality, Dulac must use his wits, his resolve and his deepest life experiences to recover the boy alive.</p><p><p>In the spirit of Truman Capote's, In Cold Blood, Weesner takes the reader deep into the conflicting desires and motivations of a broken family, a sexually confused perpetrator, and an immensely complex investigating detective, to create a lightning-fast literary thriller that is both powerful and heartbreakingly realistic.</p><p><p>Weesner's, unflinching insight and master storytelling combine to create a rare breed of novel: An absolute page-turner that rises to the level of great American literature.
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Fiction Literature Mystery