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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Moe Prager is a fully developed character that produces a lot of empathy from this reader. Give him a try and see if you don't end up liking the guy. (Am saving the rest of the series to read over Christmas break.) (  ) magnumpigg | Nov 7, 2009 |  1st instalment of 5 (currently) in the Moe Prager series and quite a good opening. Pace picks up considerably in the last third of the book when Moe starts making the connections and various consequences are revealed. For the Irish out there it includes an interesting description of hurling from an outsider's view. (  ) johnbsheridan | Jan 21, 2009 | A cop, forced to retire on disability, takes on a missing persons case. Bit by bit he builds up a picture of the missing kid - who one witness saw "walking the perfect square" in an obsessive-compulsive way. Not much made of that, but it's a great title. The ending carries a nicely twisted twist. bfister | Jan 1, 2009 | Good, solid mystery, featuring Moe Prager, a former NYPD officer, out on disability. He's hired to find a missing person with secrets, and uncovers more than he realized, but comes to understand he's being used for more than a search. Characters are enjoyable and believable; the ultimate solution perhaps comes as something of a surprise. The "Epilogue" might seem a bit much, but wraps the story up nicely. I'd like to read more about Prager, but I don't know if Coleman has continued the series. (  ) Goodwillbooks | Jul 6, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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December 8th, 1977: Patrick Maloney, a supposedly popular college student, walks out of a Manhattan nightspot into oblivion. It’s no wonder Maloney’s disappearance barely registers on the radar screen. Son of Sam strikes. Elvis is dead. It’s the Sex Pistols vs. the BeeGees, Studio 54 and the Dirt Lounge, est and yin/yang, gas shortages, Quaaludes, pot and polyester, Plato’s Retreat, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the neutron bomb.
Moe Prager, a cop forced into early retirement by injury, certainly hadn’t noticed Patrick Maloney’s disappearance. But when Prager’s ex-partner calls with an offer to work on the case, Moe, wracked with self-doubt over his undistinguished career, signs on.
As Prager traces Patrick Maloney’s steps from his upstate home to his college dorm on Long Island, from the Tribeca bar where he was last seen to an old flame’s mansion on the Gold Coast, Moe realizes that nothing about the case, especially the details of the missing man’s life, is as it seems. Even the picture his parents gave the police was two years out of date. Why? What could his parents be hiding? What tortured secrets might have driven Patrick to create a public persona so different from his true self?
Questions multiply as Prager searches for Patrick in New York’s notorious punk underground, gay clubs and biker bars. Will Moe’s blossoming relationship with Patrick’s older sister help to bring Maloney back home or will it help to destroy any progress in the case? Can Moe overcome the roadblocks thrown in his path by dirty cops, corrupt politicians, and an ambitious reporter? And who are the truly ominous forces working behind the scenes to pull Prager into the very private hell of the Maloney family? Is Moe Prager running in circles or simply walking the perfect square?
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400)
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