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A vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces them all again, this time as a murder suspect in a pulse-pounding legal thriller of psychological suspense. On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she's been found murdered on a Coney Island beach. Joe throws himself into his work, struggling to reconcile his memories of Lois with the relative stranger found by the NYPD. And when another murder hits close to home and DNA links Joe to both crimes, he sinks deeper into the abyss. Joe can't remember a thing. His last hope as the evidence mounts against him is Aideen Bradigan, a brilliant and dogged lawyer from his past. It will take Aideen's drive and Joe's own shrewd legal mind to uncover a potentially terrifying truth--and to shatter the devastating secrets that claw back to that fateful night in the dark.… (más)
This was an Amazon First Reads pick. The story goes between the present and the past. Joe is an alcoholic lawyer who was raised by his uncle after his mother disappeared during a blackout. Joe's mother reappears as a murder victim and Joe is accused of being the killer. ( )
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If I get her in my sights, boom, boom. Out go the lights.--Little Walter
Man, I swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you.--Lou Reed, "Coney Island Baby"
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For Adam Sheldon, who embodied New York City and left us too soon, and for Richard Malnati, mentor and friend, and my last, fast connection to the island of my birth.
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8:37 P.M. Load is high.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
A vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces them all again, this time as a murder suspect in a pulse-pounding legal thriller of psychological suspense. On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she's been found murdered on a Coney Island beach. Joe throws himself into his work, struggling to reconcile his memories of Lois with the relative stranger found by the NYPD. And when another murder hits close to home and DNA links Joe to both crimes, he sinks deeper into the abyss. Joe can't remember a thing. His last hope as the evidence mounts against him is Aideen Bradigan, a brilliant and dogged lawyer from his past. It will take Aideen's drive and Joe's own shrewd legal mind to uncover a potentially terrifying truth--and to shatter the devastating secrets that claw back to that fateful night in the dark.
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