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Told from a variety of perspectives, including that of Detective Sanchez of the Bronx NYPD, this fevered noir from Rodriguez (Spidertown) centers on law enforcement's search for a drug dealer known as Spook, who had agreed to launder huge sums of money for a terrorist group, but took off with the cash instead. Punctuating the main story line are chapters whose relevance is obscure; one, for example, contains short biographies of Leni Riefenstahl, Anne Sexton and Marlene Dietrich. The author eventually pulls the disparate strands together, including those to do with Ava Reynolds, a mysterious blonde with instant recall who proves her ability by memorizing a page of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. At its best, the novel carries the reader along by the force of its hypnotic prose, but the effort necessary to keep track of what's going on may turn off those more comfortable with a conventional linear narrative. Author tour. (Apr.)
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An alcoholic lothario shoe salesman wakes up with a cute woman in his bed. Where did she come from? Monk and Mink are a writer and a painter, respectively, who rode a wave of Hispanic-chic in the arts until the wave broke; now Monk has disappeared. Sanchez is a South Bronx detective on the outs for nailing some vigilante cops for a string of murders. Today the feds arrive and ask for his help in finding Spook, a drug dealer hired by a terrorist group to launder $10 million. Since Spook didn’t make that last deposit, the feds have lost the money trail. Rodriguez, winner of an American Book Award in 1995 for Spidertown, shifts narrative perspective constantly, moving from Alex the alcoholic to the woman in his bed to Mink and sometimes to Sanchez as first-person narrator. Initially, readers will be challenged by seemingly unconnected vignettes and characters, but Rodriguez teasingly pulls them together until eventually we have a poetic thriller in which the body count rises as the painfully self-aware Sanchez balances duty versus survival. A very different and rewarding mystery. --Wes Lukowsky
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Told from a variety of perspectives, including that of Detective Sanchez of the Bronx NYPD, this fevered noir from Rodriguez (Spidertown) centers on law enforcement's search for a drug dealer known as Spook, who had agreed to launder huge sums of money for a terrorist group, but took off with the cash instead. Punctuating the main story line are chapters whose relevance is obscure; one, for example, contains short biographies of Leni Riefenstahl, Anne Sexton and Marlene Dietrich. The author eventually pulls the disparate strands together, including those to do with Ava Reynolds, a mysterious blonde with instant recall who proves her ability by memorizing a page of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. At its best, the novel carries the reader along by the force of its hypnotic prose, but the effort necessary to keep track of what's going on may turn off those more comfortable with a conventional linear narrative. Author tour. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
An alcoholic lothario shoe salesman wakes up with a cute woman in his bed. Where did she come from? Monk and Mink are a writer and a painter, respectively, who rode a wave of Hispanic-chic in the arts until the wave broke; now Monk has disappeared. Sanchez is a South Bronx detective on the outs for nailing some vigilante cops for a string of murders. Today the feds arrive and ask for his help in finding Spook, a drug dealer hired by a terrorist group to launder $10 million. Since Spook didn’t make that last deposit, the feds have lost the money trail. Rodriguez, winner of an American Book Award in 1995 for Spidertown, shifts narrative perspective constantly, moving from Alex the alcoholic to the woman in his bed to Mink and sometimes to Sanchez as first-person narrator. Initially, readers will be challenged by seemingly unconnected vignettes and characters, but Rodriguez teasingly pulls them together until eventually we have a poetic thriller in which the body count rises as the painfully self-aware Sanchez balances duty versus survival. A very different and rewarding mystery. --Wes Lukowsky
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