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![]() | Fire Sale (2005) (Book 12 in the V.I. Warshawski series) A novel by Sara Paretsky |
The astonishing new V. I. Warshawski novel from one of America's foremost writers of crime fiction.
V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.
Through young Josie Dorrado, V.I. meets the girl's mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where she works. The biggest employer on the South Side, discount-store behemoth By-Smart, pays even less, and Ms. Dorrado doesn't know how she'll support her four children if the flag plant shuts down.
The elder Dorrado's fears are realized when the plant explodes; V.I. is injured and the owner is killed. As V.I. begins to investigate, she finds herself onfronting the Bysen family, who own the By-Smart company. Founder William "Buffalo Bill" Bysen, now in his eighties, has four sons who quarrel with each other and with him; the oldest, "Young Mr. William," is close to sixty and furious that his father doesn't cede more power to him. And then there's "Billy the Kid," Young Mr. William's nineteen-year-old son, whose Christian idealism puts him on a collision course with his father, his grandfather, and the company as a whole.
When Billy runs away with Josie Dorrado, V.I. is squeezed between the needs of two very different families. As she tries to find the errant teenagers, and to track down a particularly cruel murderer, her own life is almost forfeit in the swamps that lie under the city of Chicago.
Genre: Mystery
V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.
Through young Josie Dorrado, V.I. meets the girl's mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where she works. The biggest employer on the South Side, discount-store behemoth By-Smart, pays even less, and Ms. Dorrado doesn't know how she'll support her four children if the flag plant shuts down.
The elder Dorrado's fears are realized when the plant explodes; V.I. is injured and the owner is killed. As V.I. begins to investigate, she finds herself onfronting the Bysen family, who own the By-Smart company. Founder William "Buffalo Bill" Bysen, now in his eighties, has four sons who quarrel with each other and with him; the oldest, "Young Mr. William," is close to sixty and furious that his father doesn't cede more power to him. And then there's "Billy the Kid," Young Mr. William's nineteen-year-old son, whose Christian idealism puts him on a collision course with his father, his grandfather, and the company as a whole.
When Billy runs away with Josie Dorrado, V.I. is squeezed between the needs of two very different families. As she tries to find the errant teenagers, and to track down a particularly cruel murderer, her own life is almost forfeit in the swamps that lie under the city of Chicago.
Genre: Mystery
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Hardback Editions
January 2007 : Hardback
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June 2006 : Hardback
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March 2006 : Hardback
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July 2005 : Hardback
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June 2005 : Hardback
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June 2005 : Hardback
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Hardback
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Paperback Editions
October 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Fire Sale Author(s): Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0-340-83910-4 / 978-0-340-83910-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2006 : Paperback
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July 2006 : Mass Market Paperback
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March 2006 : Paperback
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January 2006 : Perfect Paperback
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January 2006 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 2006 : Mass Market Paperback
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2005 : Paperback
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1980 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
September 2010 : Audio CD
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June 2006 : Audio CD
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January 2006 : Audio CD
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January 2006 : Audio Cassette
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June 2005 : Audio Cassette
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June 2005 : Audio Cassette
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June 2005 : Audio CD
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June 2005 : Audio CD
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June 2005 : MP3 CD
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June 2005 : MP3 CD
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June 2005 : Audio CD
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Other Editions
February 2011 : Unknown
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September 2009 : Unknown
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September 2008 : Kindle edition
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July 2006 : Kindle edition
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2005 : Unknown
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2005 : Unknown
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