I enjoyed his first, a solid debut, and have been looking forward to the second, but paperback looking forward to, not hardback looking forward to, which I reserve for a very select few, one of which we've recently lost, Westlake/Stark's Parker books.
Mark
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> From: bthorntonwriter@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:03:29 -0700
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Trigger City by Sean Chercover
>
> I wrote and raved about this book months ago right after finishing it.
> Would love to see other Rare Birds get behind it and give Chercover a try.
>
> All the Best-
>
> Brian
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Mark Sullivan <DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Dave,
> > Thanks for posting this. Notified me that this, his second, is out in
> > paper. I'll be picking it up soon.
> > I've been having good luck with PI novels lately. Read the forth Moe Prager
> > by Reed Farrel Coleman and the third John March by Peter Spiegelman. Both
> > excellent. Now I'm reading Losers Live Longer by Russell Atwood (after
> > recently reading his long ago East of A).
> > Mark
> >
> > > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > From: Dave.Zeltserman@gmail.com <Dave.Zeltserman%40gmail.com>
> > > Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:35:27 +0000
> > > Subject: RARA-AVIS: Trigger City by Sean Chercover
> >
> > >
> > > In a lot of ways this is a remarkable PI novel, and probably the closest
> > I've read that had me thinking of Rockford. The author in the first pages
> > lays out the indisputable facts of the murder that the PI is going to be
> > investigating leaving no question as to who the murderer is. Very early on
> > there's also no question as to the why of the murder, but by this time even
> > though this is stylistically hardboiled PI, it has transitioned to
> > mystery-thriller hybrid where the big question is how is the the PI going to
> > keep himself and others alive. This is not a perfect book--the author uses
> > that annoying song playlist that seems so in vogue today (although he does
> > have a clever twist with it), and if you look at the somewhat rushed ending
> > too hard you can poke a dozen holes into it. Still, though, I enjoyed this
> > more than any other recent PI novel I've read in years, and Chercover is
> > clearly a strong writer with a bright future. If you a fan of hardboiled PI,
> > I strongly recommend thi
> > > s.
> > >
> > > --Dave
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