Fuzz

eForeword

In the big-city squad room of the 87th Precinct, the detectives have seen and heard just about everything. But novelist Ed McBain always discovers a new angle when he returns to them and his 1968 novel Fuzz is among his best. One of the 87th Precinct’s real heroes, Steve Carella, is at the center of this thriller, in which the police must find a serial assassin who is killing off city officials one by one, when his ransom demands are not met.

Ed McBain is a pseudonym for the American novelist Evan Hunter (b. 1926). Hunter published his first 87th Precinct novel in 1956 (CopHater), and the series now numbers well over 30 titles. These novels forever altered the style of the police procedural (a novel that explores the solving of a crime), and their impact on popular culture has been profound. The legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa based a film on one of McBain’s novels, and television series such as NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues owe them a huge debt. Hunter’s style, as McBain, captures the tough, combative atmosphere of urban police work with humor and humanity, and it is one of the treasures of modern American genre fiction.

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