Fat Ollie's Book

This lively novel—the fifty-second in the award-winning 87th Precinct series—follows the exploits of Ed McBain''s most beloved and foul-mouthed detective, Fat Ollie Weeks.

All at once, Fat Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea...

But as any real writer could tell you, that''s how inspiration strikes -- with the sudden force of a violent crime. Known more for his foul mouth and short temper than his way with words, Detective Weeks has written a novel. But just as Isola is rocked by the murder of a mayoral candidate, the only copy of Ollie''s manuscript is stolen -- and an all-too-real adventure begins as a thief follows Ollie''s fictional blueprint to find a $2 million cache of nonexistent diamonds. Now, the 87th Precinct races to bring poetic justice to a cold-blooded assassin -- and someone''s about to add another chapter to the colorful career of Ollie Weeks, a cop who''s never played by the book....