Chasing the Dragon

A North Beach Mystery

De: Domenic Stansberry

Narrado por: Jonathan Davis

A complicated, shadowy man in disgrace, Dante Mancuso leads a double life. Lately, though, the line he walks has become razor thin. Dante works for The Company, a nebulous security organization operating just this side of the law. Dante wants out, but it's a hard life to leave behind - rich with its own seductions, its own dark attractions.

His latest assignment sends him back to his old North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco. First rendezvous? His estranged father's funeral in the dying heart of Little Italy. Here Dante picks up the strands of his old life and soon finds himself playing an even more elaborate game, a game that involves not just his duplicitous family, but also his ex-fiance and his former colleagues in the San Francisco Police Department.

Adept as he is, Dante can not play this game forever. He's pursued by the laconic Frank Ying, a Chinese detective anxious to know the secrets Dante hides. Caught between the sinister imperatives of The Company and the ghosts of his own past, Dante treads a harrowing path to a confrontation more lethal - and more surprising - than he could have imagined.

With Chasing the Dragon, Domenic Stansberry - the acclaimed writer of modern noir - introduces a new hardboiled series set in San Francisco. In this, the series opener, Stansberry tells a story written in clear homage to the masters of the genre, yet with an original, breathtaking voice all his own.

©2004 Domenic Stansberry (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Edgar-finalist Stansberry's strong, no-nonsense crime novel, the first in a new series, pulls few punches....Well researched, with ample local color—most of the action takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area—this is a gripping novel with unforeseeable plot twists and some incendiary scenes. Stansberry (The Last Days of Il Duce) has a fine eye for detail that prevents his often grim narrative from becoming merely ghoulish; he evokes the nightmarish criminal underworld without making it too depressing and his protagonist is believable and strangely admirable, even when disposing of a body in San Francisco Bay. This gritty, noirish exercise in murder and drugs feels uncomfortably like the real thing." (Publishers Weekly)

Pretty Good Mystery

The story kept me interested, although I didn't necessarily have a connection to the characters. Pretty good read, however.