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A Cold Caseby Philip Gourevitch
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A few years ago, Andy Rosenzweig, chief investigator for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, was abruptly reminded of an old double homicide: a friend from his youth, a former prizefighter, had been murdered along with another man in 1970. It bothered Rosenzweig that the killer had eluded capture for nearly three decades. He resolved to track down the fugitive and – if he was still alive – to close the case. In a surprising, intensely dramatic narrative, Philip Gourevitch brings together the story of Rosenzweig's pursuit with a mesmerizing account of the killer's criminal personality and his decades on the lam. A Cold Case carries us deep into the lives and minds, the passions and perplexities, of two extraordinary men who embody opposing but quintessentially American codes of being-that of the lawman and that of the outlaw. Set in a New York City milieu that has all but disappeared, and written with a keen ear for the vibrant idiom of the men and women who once peopled its streets, this is a book for our times, written with a force and immediacy that compel attention. When Gourevitch's first book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, appeared in 1998, the novelist Robert Stone said of the author, "There is no limit to what we may expect of him." With A Cold Case Gourevitch sustains the promise of his earlier work, masterfully transforming a criminal investigation into a searching literary reckoning with the urges that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers. Book News Annotation:Follows Andy Rosenzweig, chief investigator for the Manhattan
District Attorney's office, as he tracks down a killer guilty of a
murder committed three decades ago. This true narrative brings
together the story of Rosenzweig's pursuit with an account of the
killer's personality and his years on the lam, painting a portrait of
two men who embody opposite sides of the law. Lacks a subject index.
The author is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:"The mystery...is not how these murders occurred or...the killer was caught...rather, the nature of the crime itself." Scott Turow Review:"I think Philip Gourevitch is an ace researcher and a knockout writer. You'll love A Cold Case." Elmore Leonard Review:"...elegant book about a brutal, long-forgotten crime. Gourevitch's...portrait of gangland in New York in the 1960s is brilliant." Sebastian Junger Review:"In ruminatively asking why a man murders and how he feels about it, Gourevitch continues in the vein of his award-garnering book about genocide in Rwanda, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998). A subtle, skillful storyteller, he also gives his investigation of a good cop and a bad guy some real New York flavor in the person of Koehler's cynical lawyer." Gilbert Taylor, Booklist Synopsis:"A Cold Case" carries readers into the lives and minds, the passions and perplexities, of an extraordinary cop (Andy Rosenzweig) and an extraordinary criminal (Frankie Koehler) whose lives entwine over three decades. Photos. About the AuthorPHILIP GOUREVITCH is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His first book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (FSG, 1998), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in New York City. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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