Private-Eye Nathaniel Rose has seen it all--from dead strippers to exploding Mustangs to blackmailing lovers. After a brief tour of Korea and ten years as a cop, Rose now walks the dark side of the street, handling cases in St. Louis, Missouri. Whether it takes brains, brawn, or bullets to solve a case, Rose knows exactly what to do. With friends on both sides of the law and a hardboiled sense of justice to guide him, Rose takes the most difficult cases to heart. And solves them.
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This review is from: Tequila Sunrise (Paperback)
The subtitle, "Bullets, Booze and Broads," is a highly accurate summation of this short story collection. There is certainly no mistaking this book for a cozy tea party at the vicarage. In all honesty, I'm much more a cozy fan than a hardboiled fan, and the more graphic sex scenes pushed my "too much information" button. Bracken tells a good story, though, and there is no denying that Nathaniel Rose has a distinctive voice.All of the stories are set in St. Louis, and as someone who visits St. Louis maybe once every few years, I enjoyed Rose's tour of some of those sites not on the typical tourist itinerary. The city's unique personality comes through very subtly yet effectively, seeming to make the setting a character of its own. I was particularly impressed with the plot lines, both within each story and in the progression of stories. Bracken's plot twists are fresh and innovative where so many hardboiled stories fall back on the tried and true devices. Bracken even seems to poke fun at some of those hardboiled conventions, like when Rose describes how he and his secretary are caught by surprise when a client actually shows up completely unannounced. The character development as Rose proceeds from "Partners" (first published in 1988) through four stories from the 1995 collection Even Roses Bleed, to the final two stories written for this anthology, also indicate Bracken's concentration on craft. And despite my cozy leanings, I couldn't help but admire Bracken's willingness to shed just about anybody's blood in order to keep the plot coherent. If you like your fiction brief and noir (and maybe even if you don't) I think you'll find Tequila Sunrise an intoxicating treat. (adapted from a "Skullduggery" review)
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"Tequilla Sunrise": Strong Stuff,
By Mark Best (Knoxville TN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tequila Sunrise (Paperback)
Michael Bracken's "Tequilla Sunrise" is a wonderful trip into the hardboiled world. It's a place where strippers are named Lime Ricky and Tequilla Sunrise, where friends become enemies, enimies become allies, and clients become lovers before the sun sets. This collection of seven stories (six previously published)follows PI Nathaniel Rose down the mean streets of St. Louis. The collection starts with a bang (literally) in "Partners," and continues nonstop through some of the best noir detective tales in years. Bracken manages to create a fresh, unique character in Rose, while keeping true to the traditional hardboiled private eye story. Any of these stories could have come right from the pages of Black Mask. If you love classic noir stories, you owe it to yourself to read this collection.
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Unapologetic Hard Boiled Entertaiment,
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Nathaniel Rose evokes shades of Mike Hammer and Parker with some unique textures of his own. The stories were entertaining original fiction, written with honor threaded throughout the tough action and dialogue.The reader is left wanting more tales from this almost anti-hero. In a genre overly criticized for its wanton violence and sexuality, it's refreshing to see Michael Bracken stare the critics down for the sake of a story done right. Bracken's work can stand alongside Mickey Spillane, Richard Stark, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos and Ed McBain as the most entertaining writing of its genre. Having read four other Bracken books (All White Girls, Bad Girls, Psi Cops as well as Tequila Sunrise), the feeling is that Bracken will make a major breakthrough into mainstream entertainment. Hopefully,his Nathaniel Rose creation will follow him there, because crime fiction needs a breath of fresh air.
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