A Cold Case - Softcover

"Gripping, first rate . . . beyond the outright suspense here . . . is a meditation on the very essence of crime."-Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" "This terse, eloquent book reminded me of many of the classic European novels, because the expected end is not the end at all. The mystery, it turns out, is not how these murders occurred or how the killer was caught but, rather, the nature of crime itself."-Scott Turow "Part study of the criminal mind, part appraisal of the strange mechanics of justice, it is a trenchant, pithy, atmospheric book."-"Times Literary Supplement" "The book's province lies somewhere between those of Cain and Camus . . . Matthew Arnold said a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life . . . An inversion applies here: a piece of life by Philip Gourevitch is a work of art."-Jonathan Kiefer, " San Francisco Chronicle" "Gourevitch is one of the finest journa " Gripping, first rate . . . beyond the outright suspense here . . . is a meditation on the very essence of crime." -- Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" " This terse, eloquent book reminded me of many of the classic European novels, because the expected end is not the end at all. The mystery, it turns out, is not how these murders occurred or how the killer was caught but, rather, the nature of crime itself." -- Scott Turow " Part study of the criminal mind, part appraisal of the strange mechanics of justice, it is a trenchant, pithy, atmospheric book." -- "Times Literary Supplement" " The book's province lies somewhere between those of Cain and Camus . . . Matthew Arnold said a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life . . . An inversion applies here: a piece of life by Philip Gourevitch is a work of art." -- Jonathan Kiefer," San Francisco Chronicle" " Gourevitch is one of the finest journalists working today; his portrait of gangland in New York in the 1960s is brilliant." -- Sebastian Junger " Using a snappy, terse prose style that mimics a police procedural . . ." A Cold Case" is a lively, vastly readable book." -- John Freeman," The Denver Post" "Gripping, first rate . . . beyond the outright suspense here . . . is a meditation on the very essence of crime."--Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" "This terse, eloquent book reminded me of many of the classic European novels, because the expected end is not the end at all. The mystery, it turns out, is not how these murders occurred or how the killer was caught but, rather, the nature of crime itself."--Scott Turow "Part study of the criminal mind, part appraisal of the strange mechanics of justice, it is a trenchant, pithy, atmospheric book."--"Times Literary Supplement" "The book's province lies somewhere between those of Cain and Camus . . . Matthew Arnold said a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life . . . An inversion applies here: a piece of life by Philip Gourevitch is a work of art."--Jonathan Kiefer," San Francisco Chronicle" "Gourevitch is one of the finest journalists working today; his portrait of gangland in New York in the 1960s is brilliant."--Sebastian Junger "Using a snappy, terse prose style that mimics a police procedural . . ." A Cold Case" is a lively, vastly readable book."--John Freeman," The Denver Post"

Philip Gourevitch is the author of We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. He is a staff writer for the New Yorker and editor of the Paris Review.