{"product_id":"hard-rain-isbn-9781569471043","title":"Hard Rain","description":"During a random break-in, three heroin addicts discover the corpse of banker Martin Ijsbreker. They arrange his death to look like a suicide and flee with his valuables, but are found dead of an overdose the next day. The investigating officer dismissed their deaths as an accident, but the commissaris suspects that his cousin and childhood nemesis, Willem Fernandus, murdered Ijsbreker to protect his own shares in the dead man’s bank. When the two finally confront each other as adversaries, someone will die.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for\u003ci\u003e Hard Rain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Good thrillers are necessarily about good versus evil, but hardly any  thrillers try to explore the philosophical nature of either one . . . A couple of attending virtues make Janwillem van de Wetering's new novel  more than a routine case of venality and violence. One is a world-weary  humor . . . the other is an exploration  of a good guy's ethic and a bad guy's ethos.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Los Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the more fetching outings for van de Wetering's offbeat Amsterdam  cops—offering a leisurely, whimsical mixture of resourceful action,  psychological confrontation, and philosophical repartee . . . An engaging excursion, dark-edged yet oddly lighthearted.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fast-moving story that combines action, detection, satire, Zen philosophy and pure fun, and shows van de Wetering to be at the top of his form.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJanwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008) was born and raised in Rotterdam, but lived most recently in Surry, Maine. He served as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary and was once a Zen Buddhist monk. He is renowned for his detective fiction, including \u003ci\u003eOutsider in Amsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Corpse on the Dike\u003c\/i\u003e; the short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Sergeant’s Cat\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Maine Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e, which garnered him the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; and ten other books in the Amsterdam Cops series.","brand":"Soho Crime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303734628581,"sku":"NP9781569471043","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781569471043.jpg?v=1767728708","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/hard-rain-isbn-9781569471043","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}