A Time of Predators (OTTO PENZLER PRESENTS)
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ISBN: 0765310511 / Publisher: Forge Books, March 2005
When a woman commits suicide after being tortured for witnessing a hate crime, her husband, Curt Halstead, despairs of obtaining help from the police and other legal avenues and decides to enter his wife's attackers' world as part of a plot for vengeance.
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Otto Penzler and the Mystery Writers of America Present A Time of Predators by Joe Gores, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel The gang was restless, just looking for idle fun. They roughed up a man they thought was a homosexual--but their game got out of hand and their victim was blinded.It was Paula Halstead's bad luck to witness the attack and catch a glimpse of one of the boys. After they got through with her, she killed herself.The police have no leads and can't find the culprits. Paula's husband hires a private investigator to do what the police haven't been able to-with no success. Curt Halstead refuses to give up; he will have his vengeance on the men who raped and tortured his wife, even if it means entering into their world of sex, violence, and murder.
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