Word Made Flesh
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“Vealshank” Tani’s life ends in an abandoned train station. The killers don’t just torture Tani, they skin him and hang him from a steal beam as a treat for the carrion eaters. This grisly scene wouldn’t matter to Gilrein, a cabbie who knows to mind his own business, except that he spent the evening as Tani’s chauffeur. Whether he knows anything or not, his life is now a liability to August Kroger, kingpin and rare-book addict—and enemies of Kroger do not live long. Before he drove a Checker, Gilrein was a cop, with a life built around the force. His wife wore a badge as well, serving valiantly until the day an explosion took her life and forced Gilrein to abandon their profession. Sensing a connection between Tani’s death and his wife’s, Gilrein reopens the case, hoping to expose the conspiracy that ended her life—before it claims his too.
Jack O'Connell
Jack O’Connell (b. 1959) is the author of five critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling crime novels. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, O’Connell’s earliest reading was the dime novel paperbacks and pulp fiction sold in his corner drug store, whose hard-boiled attitude he carried over to his own writing. He has cited his hometown’s bleak, crumbling infrastructure as an influence on Quinsigamond, the fictional city where his first four novels were set, and whose decaying industrial landscape served as a backdrop for strange thrillers which earned O’Connell the nickname of a “cyberpunk Dashiell Hammett.” O’Connell’s most recent novel was The Resurrectionist (2008). A former student at Worcester’s College of the Holy Cross, he now teaches there, not far from where he and his family live just outside of his hometown.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is definitely not for the squeamish. The prologue revolves around the skinning of a man and part of the narrative details a genocide back in the old country. The city of Quinsigamond is again the star of the show with only small plot elements tying this one to the previous in the series. This time around we follow independent cab driver and former police officer Gilrein as he tries to uncover the reason why he's just been beaten up by a couple of hoodlums thinking that he had a package that belonged to their boss. As with all the books in this series there is so much more going on than just the basic plot and whatever I write here couldn't do justice to the underlying elements of this story.Not many authors could pull off a book like this and still leave you wanting more from this cess-pit of all the evils of mankind that is Quinsigamond.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The short (untitled or un-numbered) preceding chapter 1, nearly forced me to throw the book away. Some puritan sensibilities rose from somewhere buried and nearly had me miss this magnifically written work of art. The twists, turns, ins and outs, keep you cataloguing characters so that no one, on their return to stage, is a stranger. Get a copy -- you won't be disappointed.