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  • Published: 7 February 1992
  • ISBN: 9780553762648
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 428
  • RRP: $45.00

Sniper's Moon

A Novel




“A first-rate police thriller.”—Jonathan Kellerman

Detective Frank Keogh. He’s a man who trades on nerve and luck—and a cop who’s about to become an executioner’s target.

Detective Frank Keogh has a rare gift—for killing. He picked it up in the jungles of Vietnam and perfected it on New York’s mean streets. It’s a talent that comes in handy when you’re a sniper for the NYPD. But over the years his calling has produced a numbness that has his partner worries: Is Frank finding it too easy to pull the trigger now?

Then, on a steamy August night in the South Bronx, a cop connected to Frank is found bizarrely murdered. No one really believes that Keogh is capable of such a brutal act . . . until a second savagely mutilated body is found, and the MO echoes a famous case solved by Frank’s father, a retired detective. Suddenly, Frank Keogh is a fugitive, dodging cops and meeting violence as he takes off on a cross-country chase to the Southwest desert . . . desperately searching for the man who framed him—and the father who could be his last, best hope of staying alive.

“An epic police thriller . . . crackling with narrative energy . . . and a deep-grained savvy about cop ways and mores.”—Kirkus Reviews

  • Published: 7 February 1992
  • ISBN: 9780553762648
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 428
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Carsten Stroud

Carsten Stroud is a seasoned writer of fiction and non-fiction, including the true-crime account Close Pursuit, a New York Times bestseller when it was published almost twenty-five years ago. His novels include Sniper's Moon, Lizardskin, Black Water Transit, Cuba Strait, Cobraville.

He lives in Toronto.

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