Name: White River Burning: A Dave Gurney Novel: Book 6
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Author: John Verdon
ISBN: 9781640092037

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White River Burning: A Dave Gurney Novel: Book 6

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Verdon

Publisher

Counterpoint

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781640092037

Synopsis "White River Burning: A Dave Gurney Novel: Book 6 "

"John Verdon writes grown-up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well-developed characters and crimes that have social consequences. White River Burning, featuring the author's brainy gumshoe-for-hire, Dave Gurney, checks all these boxes." ―The New York Times Book Review Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the one-year anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black motorist by a local police officer. The economically depressed, racially polarized city is on edge, confronted with angry demonstrations, arson, and looting. In the midst of the turmoil, a White River police officer is shot dead by an unknown sniper. As the town spirals out of control, local authorities approach Dave Gurney to conduct an independent investigation of the shooting. The situation in White River becomes truly explosive as more killings occur in what appears to be an escalating sequence of retaliations. But when Gurney questions the true nature of all this bloodshed, and zeroes in on peculiar aspects of the individual murders, his involvement is suddenly terminated. Obsessed with evidence that doesn't support the official version of events, Gurney cannot let go of the case. Despite intense opposition from the police, as well as from dangerous fanatics lurking in the shadows, he begins to uncover an astonishing structure of deception―learning that nothing in White River it what it seems to be. White River Burning is the most provocative and timely book yet by the author hailed by the New York Times as "masterly"―furthering the adventures of Dave Gurney, a detective reviewers have compared to Sherlock Holmes.

John Verdon

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John Verdon worked in various advertising agencies in Manhattan as a creative director until he, like his protagonist, moved to live in a rural setting in upstate New York

I Know What You're Thinking was his first novel, a global success. In 2011, Roca Editorial published Don't Open Your Eyes, which was also a critical and sales success, followed by Let The Devil Sleep, Don't Trust Peter Pan, Control Your Dreams, and You Will Burn in the Storm. His series, featuring the charismatic retired detective David Gurney, is already a benchmark in the noir and crime genre.

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