Name: A Cold Case
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Author: Philip Gourevitch
ISBN: 9781429981101

A Cold Case

by Philip Gourevitch 2020-05-06 21:08:43

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A few years ago, Andy Rosenzweig, chief investigator for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, was abruptly reminded of an old double homicide: a friend from his youth, a former prizefighter, had been murdered along with another man in 1970. It bothered Rosenzweig that the killer had eluded capture for nearly three decades. He resolved to track down the fugitive and — if he was still alive — to close the case. In a surprising, intensely dramatic narrative, Philip Gourevitch brings together the story of Rosenzweig's pursuit with a mesmerizing account of the killer's criminal personality and his decades on the lam. A Cold Case carries us deep into the lives and minds, the passions and perplexities, of two extraordinary men who embody opposing but quintessentially American codes of being-that of the lawman and that of the outlaw. Set in a New York City milieu that has all but disappeared, and written with a keen ear for the vibrant idiom of the men and women who once peopled its streets, this is a book for our times, written with a force and immediacy that compel attention. When Gourevitch's first book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, appeared in 1998, the novelist Robert Stone said of the author, There is no limit to what we may expect of him. With A Cold Case Gourevitch sustains the promise of his earlier work, masterfully transforming a criminal investigation into a searching literary reckoning with the urges that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers. Philip Gourevitch is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His first book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (FSG, 1998), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in New York City. Less

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