Downtown Read by Richard Ferrone [WorldCat Entities]

"Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower, finds himself in a Manhattan bar. He's almost killed, swindled, robbed, and framed for murder in one 24-hour period."@en
"Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower, finds himself in a Manhattan bar. He's almost killed, swindled, robbed, and framed for murder in one 24-hour period."
"Vietnam vet Michael Barnes, a Saratoga orange grower who stops for a drink in downtown Manhattan on Christmas Eve on his way to the airport, suddenly finds himself the major suspect in a grisly New York Murder. On the run in New York City he gets help from a beautiful Chinese girl called Connie Kee. Chased by cops and killers he asks himself the question, who is Mama and why does she want him dead?"@en
"Out-of-town businessman Michael Barnes finds the two hours he has to kill before flying out of New York turning into twenty four hours of terror."@en
"Michael Barnes is in New York on business. He has a couple of hours to kill before his plane leaves. It's Christmas Eve. When he stops for a drink, he finds a young woman very attracted to him and he swells with masculine pride. But soon his wallet and his rented car are stolen, only to resurface on the other side of town in unexpected company, a corpse."
"Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Manhattan bar with a couple of hours to kill. It's a couple of hours that almost kill him, as he's swindled, robbed, framed for murder, and hunted down by an assassin in one of the wildest, scariest, funniest, fastest twenty-four hours ever packed into one novel."@en
"Florida citrus grower Michael Barnes has his wallet and rental car stolen at a New York bar. Things go from bad to worse when the car turns up with a corpse in the trunk. Now he is hunted by both the cops and the mob."@en
"Ed McBain, author of the bestselling 87th Precinct series, takes us "Downtown" in a bold departure of a novel that will have listeners cheering for a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York City. Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Manhattan bar with a couple of hours to kill."@en
"Michael Barnes is in New York on business. He has a couple of hours to kill before his plane leaves. When he stops for a drink, he finds a young woman very attracted to him and he swells with masculine pride. Soon his wallet and his rented car are stolen, only to resurface on the other side of town in unexpected company, a corpse."
"While waiting to catch a plane on Christmas Eve, Michael Barnes is hustled by a fake detective and then a fake movie producer. When he learns that the producer has been found dead in Michael's car, Michael begins a frantic, zany search for clues to clear his name."@en
"The story of a Sarasota orange grower who stops for a drink on his way to the airport and finds himself the major suspect in a grisly New York City murder."@en
"Michael Barnes is in New York on business. He has a couple of hours to kill before his plane leaves. When he stops for a drink, he finds a young woman very attracted to him and he swells with masculine pride. But soon his wallet and his rented car are stolen, only to resurface on the other side of town in unexpected company, a corpse."@en
"Michael finds himself in a Manhattan bar with a couple of hours to kill, but it's a couple of hours that almost kill him as an assassin hunts him down."@en