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Set in late 1980s New York City, Coleman's gritty fourth Moe Prager mystery is somewhat less surprising and realistic than its acclaimed predecessor, The James Deans (2005), which won Shamus, Barry and Anthony awards. Prager, an ex-cop turned PI, has a cryptic encounter with his old friend Larry McDonald, the NYPD chief of detectives. Larry slips him a covertly recorded tape of an interrogation of a snitch claiming to know the secret behind the murder of Dexter Mayweather, a major-league drug dealer in the early 1970s. When McDonald himself turns up an apparent suicide, Prager calls in a variety of favors from old friends to sift the truth behind Mayweather's death, even as his marriage hits a lull, leaving him vulnerable to an attractive young Hispanic detective. Less sharply written than earlier books, this effort builds to a fairly predictable solution. (Apr.)
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"Moe Prager is my kind of private eye." -- Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch series

"With Soul Patch, Coleman does The James Deans one better and then some. Moe Prager is the man." -- Janet Evanovich, author of the Stephanie Plum novels --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Bleak House; 1st edition (April 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1932557350
  • ISBN-13: 978-1932557350
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #430,102 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Crais and Coburn meet Hammett, May 15, 2007
By Richard A. Mitchell "Rick Mitchell" (candia, new hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
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A lot of authors have been touted as the second coming of Dashiel Hammett, but Coleman comes closest for me. He has all the grit of Hammett, but has the personally developed main character that Crais and Coburn do so well.

Moe Prager is an ex-cop turned wine salesman who would much rather be detecting than sipping and selling. When an old "friend" comes for help, bodies start turning up and his may be next. The plot is a good one with enough uncertainty throughout to keep the pages turning.

It is the characters that sets this book apart. Moe is rich and believeable. His observations (the book is written in the first person) about other characters in the book resonate with believability. We have all known people just like the characters in this mystery.

The setting is Brooklyn in the late 1980's and Coleman captures the tone of that decade well.

Frankly, I do not understand why Coleman is not a best-selling author. He is a winner of the Shamus Award and other prizes for his predecessor book, "The James Deans". This was my first Coleman/Moe Praeger book, but I'm going back to the bookstore for his others. This is highly recommended.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Soul of Reed, April 11, 2007
By B. G. Ritts "Old Beeg" (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
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This is the first Moe Prager book I've read, and I love the spare but gritty prose Mr. Coleman uses. I liked Moe from the beginning, and his apparent marital problems set up the possibility that an attractive detective he ends up working with will turn his head a bit further than appropriate.

I'm not familiar with Brooklyn, but I liked the feel of the place where the book is set. There are enough twists and turns in the story to keep people busy guessing what's next, and toward the end, when I thought I had an idea what might be coming, I so wanted it to be true.

I own two other of Mr. Coleman's books and they have been moved way up on my stack of books waiting to be read. The soul of a poet shimmers in this book, and that's very good for those of us who read it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Less than enamored, April 2, 2008
A book that comes with near perfect reviews and major award nominations raises expectations, and perhaps in this case, raises those expectations too high. I would rate this book at 3 and 1/2 stars out of 5. I found the characterization of the protagonist a little uneven, but that wasn't really as much a problem for me as the characterization of the dead Chief of Detectives -- dead, his character outlined and emphasized over and over, and yet at the end of the book the reader is expected to buy into a major swing in that characterization. That was tough for me to buy. Also there is a ponderous quality to the prose, to the way in which the author describes every venue, that though it may lend atmosphere it also bogs down the pacing. And yet with all that description -- maybe there were just too many places with too much history related -- New York still did not fascinate me in the same way that Crais manages to do for LA or Sandford for Minneapolis.

My biggest grievance -- and I am shocked that no one has mentioned this so far -- is with the complete lack of proofreading for this manuscript. I know some people like to blame the occasional error on the printer, but the number of misspellings, typos, duplicated words, missing words -- I all but lost patience trying to keep my head in the story and not let those things distract. It was clear that not even an electronic spell-checker was used. For years I have complained about John Sandford's books in this regard, but not all of his books together contain as many mistakes as this book holds. Bleak House Publishing has had some good press lately, but apparently not from people who've had to read their shoddily produced books.

In summary, I thought this was a pretty good book, not a great one. I'll read books by this author again.
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