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traffic, flights and wild chases down fire escape steps, ill-famed neighbourhoods
and crumbling tenement buildings, jet-set |
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| criminals, petty thieves and hardened gangsters - all these make up the background of
Nick Raider's enquiries. We are in New York, the "Big Apple".
but also a violent city, an urban jungle with eight million people and four murders
per hour.
To capture and arrest the people guilty of many of these crimes is the task |
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to Nick and the very close-knit team of Manhattan's Homicide Squad. In a "police procedural",
the detective is entrusted with investigations, and this is a very important feature
of the story, but the contribution of forensic medicine or laboratory analysis is
frequently crucial for the solution of a case. Comparing fingerprints is an old but
always useful technique and a few traces of saliva on a fag end can reveal the DNA of the
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piece of cloth may lead to identification of the murderer. The Nick Raider series is
characterized by tense dramatic atmospheres, although it also allows scope for more
relaxing moments of humour. Thanks to the skills and talent shown in his work, Nick
Raider is sometimes contacted by a top FBI officer, Max Random, who entrusts him with
particularly dangerous enquiries on a totally confidential basis, offering our officer
the opportunity to act beyond his jurisdiction. These are the occasions on which Nick
abandons his customary New York environment and the whole world then becomes the theatre
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MY NAME IS NICK RAIDER |
A New York police officer who is part of
the Homicide Squad
and is involved in very high risk investigations! |
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