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keeping readers in SUSPENSE
Back in the 1980’s I was living in Des Moines when a shocking crime took place. A young newspaper delivery boy was abducted one morning while he was delivering his route. The case has never been solved.
That same year another newspaper carrier, another young boy, vanished from the desolate early morning streets of Des Moines. Neither case has ever been solved. Both boys vanished, never to be seen again.
Some years later I was working in an office building where the mother of that first missing boy worked. She had brought national attention to the crime. Photos of missing children began to appear on cartons of milk.
On a couple of occasions I was on an elevator with her. We were alone. She didn’t know me. I recognized her from all the newspaper coverage about her son’s abduction. She had the most incredibly haunted look in her eyes. She looked right at me. I couldn’t help but think that she was looking at me with the thought of what her son might look like now.
David Levien has taken the theme of the missing newsboy as his central plot device in a new work of stunning crime fiction, CITY OF THE SUN (Doubleday).
I’m reading an advance galley of the book. It will be out in March. What a page turner!
Levien is being hailed by his peers as a fresh new talent to be noticed. Harlan Coben, Robert Crais, and Lincoln Child are singing his praises in blurbs for this new book.
Levien has some really bad dudes scuzzing around in this one. I predict that Levien will become a big name in the suspense genre.
Vick Mickunas
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By Riverdale Ghost
December 23, 2007 8:40 PM | Link to this
And, in Dayton there was….