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Dream town, David Baldacci

Label
Dream town, David Baldacci
Language
eng
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Format of music
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Dream town
Music parts
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Oclc number
1304525477
Responsibility statement
David Baldacci
Series statement
Archer series, 3
Summary
"Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case in this new thriller in David Baldaccis #1 New York Times bestselling and Nero Award-winning series. Its the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahans: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than shes saying, but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanors homeand Eleanor herself disappears. Missing client or not, Archer is dead set on finding both the murderer and Eleanor. With the help of Callahan and his partner Willie Dash, he launches an investigation that will take him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles a city in which beautiful faces are attached to cutthroat schemers, where the cops can be more corrupt than the criminalsand where the powerful people responsible for his clients disappearance will kill without hesitation if they catch Archer on their trail." --, Container
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