From Publishers Weekly
Lost Daughter and Red Winter won Cormany raves that will echo for the author's third thriller. The narrator is pill-popping, hard-drinking PI Dan Kruger of Chicago's slums. When Elvia Reyes pays Dan to recover a bag of money she claims her brother Ricardo stole from her, the assignment branches into several increasingly complicated and gory incidents. The investigator finds Ricardo murdered and the money gone, with Elvia affected only by her frantic need to get back the loot, which she herself had stolen in the first place. Prodding Kruger, the tough woman makes him her ally in the hunt. Together they find the elusive treasure in a hair-raising encounter that ends this savagely humorous, racy story about outcasts who arouse compassion, their poverty so all-consuming that it allows no such luxuries as moral standards.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
A decided improvement over Red Winter , this adventure of boozer and pill-popper Dan Kruger, Chicago private investigator, sets him on the trail of missing drug money. Illegal alien Elvia Reyes, secretive and seductive, enlists Kruger's aid in finding her brother, who apparently stole a sack of money from her. Kruger finds the brother--dead--but not the money; from that point on, a puzzling tangle of Mexican street gangs, corrupt cops, ruthless pushers, and crooked politicians test Kruger's reflexes. A less confusing, more interesting plot than before, and Kruger's character seems to have improved just a bit, despite the cluttered landscape.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
