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Disturbed Earth

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I'm from Brooklyn--the old Brooklyn of the Brooklyn Dodgers when Gil Hodges and Jackie Robinson lived just down the street. Those days are gone and I, like many other gently-maturing Brooklynites can wax nostalgic about them; but if you want to visit today's Brooklyn from the comfort of your arm chair, let Reggie Nadelson escort you. No one in recent decades does as good a job as she of capturing the atmosphere of how Brooklyn has churned, as it always has, into new cultural configurations under the influence of waves of Russian immigrants. With her you will experience their street life, foods, entrepreneurship, their ambition, audatity, and yes their crime. This latter is Nadelson's special territory and no one is better at taking you into that world than her Artie Cohen. A Russian transplant himself, with a foot planted firmly in the downtown scene across the river in Manhattan but with his heart and soul still located among the good, the bad, and the ugly in his more newly-native Brooklyn. As they used to say in my old neighborhood--"Enjoy."

you can take the kid out of brooklyn. you cannot take brooklyn out of the kid. i bought this book because i was a brooklyn girl. it is an engrossing but gruesome story.read it only if you have a strong stomach.

Disturbed Earth by Reggie Nadelson is a very suspenseful and gritty novel about New York City Detective Artie Cohen and his quest for justice. Nadelson brings New York to life in her vibrant descriptions and interesting characters. I loved it and highly recommend it to mystery fans everywhere.

I admit, I discovered this as a free kindle book, but am astounded by the complexity of the tale and the writing. A couple of formatting issues should not put the reader off ( it took me three "offish" to realise it was " of fish")! The story is grim but not noir. The diverse immigrant communities are so well described, it's uncanny (and disturbing, and occasionaly wry or amusing). I can understand a reader being put off by the story's plot. It is very grim. But characterization is brilliant and believable. For me this was a compelling and disturbing modern American tale.

I really liked this book, had me guessing all the way. But I must point out the numerous typos!!!! In this day and age there is no way that should happen.

I didnt really want to put this down. Even with slightly predictable characters, it keeps you hanging and eager to find out "who dunnit".

I just finished struggling through this book. I had to check to see if this was a self-published door stop. It reminds me of the old school days when 500 word theme papers were assigned on boring topics. Students would just make things up as they wrote feverishly in order to fill up the required space.

Nadelson starts our in a somewhat coherent story line. However, about fifty pages into the book she starts making things up as she goes along. I couldn't tell if the hero (Artie Cohen) is a bumbling detective, maverick cop, or mentally unstable schizophrenic. In fact, most of the characters appears to be mental and social misfits. PLEASE, put some sense into the conversation, some continuity into contacts and meetings.

Sadly, the ending wasn't worth the wasted time it took to struggle through the rest of the book.