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The Wrong Side Of A Gun
Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Quinn always gets his man – with one exception. The one fugitive Virgil hasn’t yet been able to capture is his unstable ex-wife who’s run off with Quinn’s ten-year-old daughter. For nine long years, while Quinn is tracking down an on-the-run enforcer for a gang of sex traffickers, a bail-jumping kidnapper/rapist, a gang of murdering home-invasion robbers, and an under-the-radar serial killer, Quinn continues his relentless search for his runaway ex-wife and his vanished child. He won't rest until he finds her.
322 pages, Paperback
Published February 2, 2016
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About the author
David Grace
53 books9 followersDavid M. Alexander (writing as David Grace) Biography
David Grace is the pen name for David M. Alexander. David Alexander was born in Upstate New York in the mid-nineteen forties. His family moved to Northern California in the early nineteen sixties. He graduated from Stanford University in 1967 with a major in history and a minor in economics. He received a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of California Law School, Boalt Hall, in June 1970, graduating in the top ten percent of his class. He was licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of the State of California in January 1971 and before the Supreme Court of the United States in November, 1977.
His first novel was "The Chocolate Spy," Coward, McCann & Geoghigan, 1978. His second novel was "Fane," Pocket Books/Timescape Books, 1981.
"My Real Name Is Lisa" was published in hardcover by Carroll & Graf 1996.
The author alone and with Hayford Peirce has published
10 pieces of short fiction in "Analog Magazine" and "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine."
The complete list of David Grace novels available from Wildside Press (print) and as ebooks from Amazon, Smashwords and other ebook distributors are:
"The Accidental Magician"
"The Concrete Kiss"
"Daniel"(ebook only)
"A Death In Beverly Hills"
"Doll's Eyes"
"Easy Target"
"Etched In Bone"
"Fever Dreams"
"The Forbidden List"
"Shooting Crows At Dawn"
"Stolen Angel"
"The Traitor's Mistress"
"True Faith"
Mr. Grace's latest novel is "The Concrete Kiss."
David Alexander shared story credit with Dan Wright and Sam Egan for the Outer Limits TV series episode, "Joyride," starring Cliff Robertson and broadcast during the 2000 season.
David Grace is the pen name for David M. Alexander. David Alexander was born in Upstate New York in the mid-nineteen forties. His family moved to Northern California in the early nineteen sixties. He graduated from Stanford University in 1967 with a major in history and a minor in economics. He received a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of California Law School, Boalt Hall, in June 1970, graduating in the top ten percent of his class. He was licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of the State of California in January 1971 and before the Supreme Court of the United States in November, 1977.
His first novel was "The Chocolate Spy," Coward, McCann & Geoghigan, 1978. His second novel was "Fane," Pocket Books/Timescape Books, 1981.
"My Real Name Is Lisa" was published in hardcover by Carroll & Graf 1996.
The author alone and with Hayford Peirce has published
10 pieces of short fiction in "Analog Magazine" and "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine."
The complete list of David Grace novels available from Wildside Press (print) and as ebooks from Amazon, Smashwords and other ebook distributors are:
"The Accidental Magician"
"The Concrete Kiss"
"Daniel"(ebook only)
"A Death In Beverly Hills"
"Doll's Eyes"
"Easy Target"
"Etched In Bone"
"Fever Dreams"
"The Forbidden List"
"Shooting Crows At Dawn"
"Stolen Angel"
"The Traitor's Mistress"
"True Faith"
Mr. Grace's latest novel is "The Concrete Kiss."
David Alexander shared story credit with Dan Wright and Sam Egan for the Outer Limits TV series episode, "Joyride," starring Cliff Robertson and broadcast during the 2000 season.
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May 15, 2016
Virgil Quinn is a Californian based deputy US Marshall, and his specialty, as part of the US Marshall's Service, is to find felons. The story starts with Quinn apprehending a man, and when he finds out he is a serial killer, and his lawyer has managed to keep this part hidden, he confronts the lawyer in a particularly non-politically-correct way. Quinn has to be put out of sight, so he is shipped to help the Detroit PD with two cases they have found great difficulty with. At the same time, his wife and daughter disappear, and while he makes all efforts to find them, for once he fails. At the same time, in Detroit, he makes headway.
What I particularly like about this book is that it is realistic. No breaks of outrageous fortune, but rather good solid police work, coupled with security camera footage etc. Quinn's major contribution over and above good police work is to put his mind in the mind of the felon, and work out what the felon is likely to do, given the circumstances. Also, Quinn and his other policemen seem human, which leads to a gripping story because you do not have to suspend disbelief. Highly recommended.
What I particularly like about this book is that it is realistic. No breaks of outrageous fortune, but rather good solid police work, coupled with security camera footage etc. Quinn's major contribution over and above good police work is to put his mind in the mind of the felon, and work out what the felon is likely to do, given the circumstances. Also, Quinn and his other policemen seem human, which leads to a gripping story because you do not have to suspend disbelief. Highly recommended.
May 13, 2016
David Grace, pen name for David M. Alexander, brings his practice of law into action in his novel The Wrong Side of a Gun. He obviously worked with people from both sides of the law to know how they think and he displayed them perfectly.
The Wrong Side of a Gun is the first book I read of David Grace and I was intrigued. Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Quinn excels at finding people and he thrills at hunting them down. But when his wife takes his daughter, he realizes he has been out maneuvered. He hunts for them for years to no avail.
About the same time he loses his wife his partner decides to take a job in Chicago. This turns his world upside-down, but drives him to spend more time hunting criminals. Then Virgil works a case that involved women being raped and killed who would be close to his daughter, Nicole’s, age he is videoed getting into an attorney’s face over his client disappearing. This moves him from California to Detroit, and unknowingly, closer to his daughter.
The Wrong Side of a Gun is the first book I read of David Grace and I was intrigued. Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Quinn excels at finding people and he thrills at hunting them down. But when his wife takes his daughter, he realizes he has been out maneuvered. He hunts for them for years to no avail.
About the same time he loses his wife his partner decides to take a job in Chicago. This turns his world upside-down, but drives him to spend more time hunting criminals. Then Virgil works a case that involved women being raped and killed who would be close to his daughter, Nicole’s, age he is videoed getting into an attorney’s face over his client disappearing. This moves him from California to Detroit, and unknowingly, closer to his daughter.
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