The Main is Montreal's teeming underworld, where the dark streets echo with cries in a dozen languages, with the quick footsteps of thieves and the whispers of prostitutes. It is a world where violence and brutality are a way of life. To the people of the Main, police lieutenant Claude LaPointe is judge, jury, father confessor and avenging angel. Montreal's police force has changed over time, but LaPointe has not. His commitment to justice is total, as is his devotion to the Main and its underworld community. But when a cold-blooded murderer invades LaPointe's territory, he is forced to examine his long-held beliefs and secrets and to confront his own loneliness and mortality. With a cast of unforgettable supporting characters and an unusual and remarkable hero, The Main is another gripping tale of death and danger, of action and mystery, by the incomparable Trevanian. SELLING POINTS . Million copy bestseller on publication in '76 . The second of four Trevanian reissues from Old Street . For readers of Homicide by David Simon . To be accompanied by a comprehensive publicity campaign REVIEWS "Trevanian's sharply tuned sense of character and milieu gives the book a vivid life granted to only the finest of 'serious' fiction." -Washington Post "The Main held me from the opening page."-Chicago Tribune Book World 'The only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe and Chaucer' New York Times