The Hidden Man
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—Booklist
“Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Loaded with suspense.”
—Mysteries Galore
“A winning debut.”
—Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
“A marvelous page-turner of a thriller set against the fascinating aftermath of the great 1906 earthquake and fire.”
—JAMES DALESSANDRO, author of 1906
“A fast-moving tale…. Where Flacco especially shines is his depiction of the two children, newly orphaned Shane Nightingale and the plucky girl who calls herself Vignette in order to give herself a more mysterious air…. It’s clearly deserving of a very wide audience.”
—SARAH WEINMAN, author of Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
“From its opening pages—when we are plunged headlong into the terrifying chaos of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906—to its riveting climax, The Last Nightingale offers an abundance of those page-turning pleasures readers seek in historical thrillers.”
—HAROLD SCHECHTER, author of The Devil’s Gentleman
“Atmospheric, chilling, and with more twists and turns than crooked Lombard Street, The Last Nightingale has it all. I couldn’t put it down.”
—CARA BLACK, author of Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
“Set in a world on the edge of Armageddon, this gripping and completely original thriller that will raise the hair on the back of your neck.”
—WILLIAM BERNHARDT, author of Capitol Conspiracy and Strip Search
The Hidden Man is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2008 by Anthony Flacco
Dossier copyright © 2008 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
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The design on the title page features an incorporation of a photograph from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, courtesy of San Francisco Memories (www.sanfranciscomemories.com).
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Flacco, Anthony.
The hidden man: a novel of suspense / Anthony Flacco.
p. cm.
1. Police—California—San Francisco—Fiction. 2. Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915: San Francisco, Calif.)—Fiction. 3. San Francisco—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3606.L33H53 2008
813'.6—dc22 2008005202
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