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Fred Filbrich
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Dan Simmons
Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge - and revenge cost him 11 years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtz's help to track down the Family's missing accountant - a man with too much knowledge of Family business to have on the loose.
But someone doesn't want the accountant found - and with enemies inside the Family vying for his throne, and turf warfare just around the corner, Farino needs an outsider like Kurtz to flush out who's really behind this latest affront. As the story twists and turns and the body count rises, Kurtz no longer knows who he can trust. Everyone seems to be after something, from the mob boss' sultry yet dangerous daughter, to a hit man named The Dane, an albino killer who is good with a knife, and a dwarf who is armed to the teeth and hell-bent on revenge. Kurtz has always been an ace investigator. Now he's about to discover that to get at the truth, sometimes you have to go after it - hard.
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its ok.
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excellent detective book
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This is Dan Simmons' (of Hyperion fame) foray into the hardboiled detective-noir genre. I wasn't sure what to expect from him in this genre, mostly that's why I read it, to see what he did after his science fiction triumphs. Other writers have made a good job of melding sci-fi and detective-noir (Alastair Reynolds' Century Rain for instance), but this is straight up detective story and it's very good! One of the more interesting things for me was the fact that this is set in a modern time compared to the majority of other books in this genre and I enjoyed this style of story-telling with more modern trappings. I was surprised to find some recurring themes from Hyperion here: the story of Abraham pops in ever so briefly, in a chapter packed so full of whacky references that it'll keep me going for months with side-reading (starting with the angel Mastema).
There were very few chapters that were reasonable points to pause at, I almost always needed to find out what happened next, and the final twenty chapters were just one long twisty turny crescendo. None of it is believable in the slightest, but it's an incredible amount of fun and rather unputdownable! Why this hasn't been made into a Jason Statham movie is beyond me.
Not believable in the slightest but incredible fun
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Just more really good Dan Simmons
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a great start to the series
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- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Dan Simmons writes fantastic science fiction and horror, but love to jump genres. Hardcase is his first book in his (so far) three book Joe Kurtz series. Joe is a well-read (allusions in the novel to Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Epictetus, Tom Wolfe, and Shakespeare) private detective who gets sent to prison for 11-years after his partner is killed and he takes revenge on the killers. As the titles of all the books suggest, the Joe Kurtz novels put the HARD into hard-boiled. The action is fast, the plots are fairly inventive (if a bit too coincidental), but largely distracting and enjoyable. This is thriller escapism without too many regrets. The setting is in the Niagara Falls, Buffalo region. In someways, this feels like a mixture of John Wick meets the Continental Op.
Hard
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Another Excellent Dan Simmons Book
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