Cop Out: A Novel
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Who are you, Malone? Just a little while ago you were a cop. That was before the two punks and their girl hit town. That was before they boosted a payroll and shot down a man and took your nine-year-old daughter as insurance to cover their getaway. Now youтАЩre just a man. Scared. Not for yourselfтАФthat would be easy. But for your child, the only thing in the world you love enough to make you play ball with the kind of scum youтАЩve hated all your life.
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Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from BrooklynтАФDaniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905тАУ1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905тАУ1971)тАФto write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authorsтАЩ name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery QueenтАЩs Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential English crime-fiction magazines of the twentieth century. They were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.
Winner of the prestigious Audie Award (for History and Audio Drama), veteran actor Robert Fass is equally at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters, and dialects. A seven-time Audie nominee with over 100 unabridged audiobooks to his credit, Robert has also earned multiple Earphones Awards, including for his narration of Joe Golem and the Drowning City by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Robert has given voice to modern and classic fiction writers alike, including Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, John Steinbeck, Carlos Fuentes, Isaac Asimov, Ellery Queen, Steve Berry, Jeffrey Deaver, and Nele Neuhaus, plus bestselling nonfiction works in history, politics, health, journalism, philosophy, and business.
