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A Blind Eye

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Beneath the rotting floorboards of an abandoned shed are human bones ' lots of them ' the last things a runaway rogue true ' crime writer and his photojournalist ex ' lover expected to find when they took shelter from a vicious Wisconsin blizzard. The grisly nightmare Frank Corso and Meg Dougherty have uncovered is nothing they can turn a blind eye to. The hideous slaughter of a family, undetected for fifteen years, must be avenged, as the hunt for a killer carries Corso halfway across the country, and through a chilling history of violence, terror, and bloodshed. But becoming an instrument of justice has made him a target of a rage ' driven maniac ' and it ' s leading to ashocking truth hidden in an isolated place where death lives ' and where no law protects the innocent.

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Bio of G. M. Ford

Gerald M. Ford was born on July 9, 1945, in Everett, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from Hawthorne College, a M.A. in English from Adelphi University, and a second M.A., this one in political science, from the University of Washington. Ford taught English and communications at colleges in Oregon and Washington for twenty years. He often thought he would like to write a detective story himself. In 1995, his first mystery, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca , was published, and since then he has also written Cast in Stone (1996), The Bum's Rush (1997), Last Ditch, and Slow Burn. Ford's mysteries, which are set in Seattle, feature Leo Waterman, a private detective. Ford has been nominated for the Anthony Award, the Shaumus Award, and the Lefty Dilys Award. Ford feels that his work has been most influenced by mystery writers John D. McDonald, Ross McDonald, Robert B. Parker, and Rex Stout, and has included in various books small tributes to each of these authors. 030

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Imprint

HarperCollins

Filesize

812.27 KB

Number of Pages

368

eBook ISBN

9780061160554

Awards

  • Crime Writers' Association Awards

Excerpt from: A Blind Eye by G. M. Ford

"I see." The woman sighed and forced her face into an uncomfortable smile. "You haven't been listening to me, have you, sir?"

"I've been listening," Corso said.

"Then you've heard me saying noon tomorrow, sir." She hesitated. "At the very earliest."

"I really need to get out of here."

She stopped fanning the pile of tickets and reluctantly made eye contact.

"As I've told you before, sir, all flights are canceled indefinitely."

"I've been stuck in this ... this ... facility for two days."

She sighed. "Sir ... pleeease. It's inconvenient for all of us, sir, but I assure you there's absolutely nothing that can be done about it." She gestured toward the windows, shook her head disgustedly, and again used her square white fingernails to pick through the paperwork. Corso jammed his hands into his pants pockets, turned away from the Courtesy Desk, and walked to the window.

Outside, a thin curtain of snow and ice blew in from the west at a thirty-degree angle. Nothing moved. Daylight's footprints and tire tracks lay buried beneath yet another foot of freshly fallen snow, leaving the tarmac a solid, wind-whipped blanket of white.

Inside, O'Hare International Airport looked like a refugee camp. Every flat surface held either a stranded traveler or his baggage. Fifty yards away, at the far end of the concourse, a pair of soldiers, automatic weapons slung over their shoulders, crisscrossed the floor, stopping here and there to check a lock or gaze into the face of a sleeping citizen.