The big silence
an Abe Lieberman mystery
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
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"Abe Lieberman, the long-suffering and canny Chicago cop, relies on his brains and his heart rather than brawn to solve the cases that come his way.".
"A figure out of Talmudic lore - "endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with his wisdom," Abe Lieberman is an honest cop in a town not necessarily known for its honesty. He is an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice. A commitment that is sorely tested on the mean streets of Chicago. A moral man, he is sometimes faced with ethical choices in order to see that justice - but perhaps not the letter of the law - is meted out.".
"The Big Silence takes Lieberman and his Irish partner, Bill Hanrahan - the Rabbi and the Priest, as they are known on the streets - on a journey that will test their consciences to the limit. When the young son of an informant in the government's witness protection program is kidnapped and a grisly death occurs, they will have to make some hard choices to set things right.
And Lieberman may have to bend the rules to help his partner, whose time has come to face the demons that have been dogging his steps for too many years."--BOOK JACKET.
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Detective and mystery stories, Police, Fiction, Jewish men, Abe Lieberman (Fictitious character), Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Illinois, fiction, Lieberman, abe (fictitious character), fictionPlaces
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The Big Silence
July 2001, Sound Library
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0792724429 9780792724421
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"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
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Once a college football star, Bill Hanrahan has had a hard time of it ever since his bad knees kept him out of the pros. He became a homicide detective with the unfortunate reputation of losing witnesses and loving the bottle. Now Hanrahan is off the sauce, and working a job that should be straightforward: He’s guarding a mob informant’s ex-wife and teenage son while they tour colleges. Everything is fine until the last night of their trip. At three in the morning, Hanrahan hears shots from their motel room. By the time he breaks down the door, it’s too late. The woman is dead, the boy has been kidnapped, and Hanrahan wants a drink more than he ever has before.
The mob issues a simple instruction to the informant: Kill yourself and your son lives. Hanrahan and his partner, Abe Lieberman, tear the city apart in search of the kid, hoping against hope that for once they will be able to keep both witnesses alive.
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