The Main
Trevanian
#4959 of 8,085 books · #1635 in Crime & Thriller
Shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1977).
The Main is Montreal's teeming underworld, where the dark streets echo with cries in a dozen languages, with the quick footsteps of thieves and the whispers of prostitutes. It is a world where violence and brutality are a way of life. To the people of the Main, police lieutenant Claude LaPointe is judge and jury, father confessor and avenging angel. Montreal's police force has changed over time, but LaPointe has not. His commitment to justice is total, as is his devotion to the Main and its underworld community. But when a cold-blooded murderer invades LaPointe's territory, he is forced to examine his long-held beliefs and secrets and to confront his own loneliness and mortality.
- Publisher
- Random House Value Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9780517347966
- Topics
Awards
- Edgar Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1977)
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