The Big Fear

The Big Fear would be overpriced if it were given away. It is not worth the time.

In Andrew Case's first novel, The Big Fear, New York City has descended back in the crime-plagued, fear-ridden state of Gotham City, or more realistically, New York of the 1970s and 80s, where you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys and the garbage is piling up in the streets. When a police detective inadvertently shoots another officer, a civilian investigator is tasked with figuring out what exactly happened.

Andrew Case brings two things to the table that make The Big Fear a different kind of crime thriller. He is an attorney himself who spent a decade as a civilian investigator into police corruption working for New York's CCRB (Civilian Complaint Review Board). And though he is a first time novelist, he has written a half dozen produced plays.

So 1) he really knows what he's talking about, which naturally enhances the credibility of his work, and 2) he knows how to write about it -- and in a manner that is not necessarily consistent with mainstream crime fiction. The fiction format gives him more room to get into description and explanation of his setting and the internal monologue of his characters. My only qualm is that the reveals come too early and are not well masked.

I got this book as part of the Amazon Prime Kindle First program, where you get to choose one free newly published E-book a month, with the option to buy a deeply discounted Audible companion. This one makes me 2-for-2 in choosing well. So I'm going to go back to this well again, an excellent way to introduce myself to new authors.

why is all this wordy info necessary. i like a book that moves on with the story. wordy, wordy, wordy. mostly rambling on.

If I ordered this it was a mistake, I have no way to listen to this and have no desire to down load a new product at this time.

Nothing, will never visit books again unless it is at barnes and nobles

CANCEL THIS ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!