Howie Carr. (2012). Hard Knocks: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Howie Carr. 2012. Hard Knocks: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing.

Howie Carr, Hard Knocks: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing, 2012.

Howie Carr. Hard Knocks: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2012.

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     Howie Carr is an award-winning front-page columnist for the Boston Herald and the host of The Howie Carr Show, a popular New England drive-time talk radio program. Known for his scathing exposés of local politicians, he is regularly featured on NBC's Today, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and CNN. In 1985 he won a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry's equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize. He has been nominated for an Emmy. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Following the lead of Boston crime-thriller writers like Dennis Lehane and Chuck Hogan, New York Times bestselling author and radio sensation, Howie Carr, delivers a hard-hitting tale of survival, betrayal, deceit, and murder... in other words, a fictional odyssey through the last thirty years of crime in Boston. Jack Reilly, a dodgy ex-Boston cop, is trying to make ends meet as a private investigator. When a client is killed, execution style, Reilly finds himself in a whole world of pain. Someone wants him dead—but why? To find out, Reilly must weed through thirty years of duplicity, corruption, and killing... a web of politicians dirtier than mobsters and criminals nobler than senators. He needs to uncover the dangerous truth behind the bribery, blood, and backdoor deals that define the highest levels of both organized crime and State House politics—before it's too late.

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   • content: Howie Carr, a well-known talk show host and BOSTON HERALD columnist, pits ex-cop Jack Reilly against utterly corrupt local officials and an utterly corrupt FBI agent. This is a throwback to the 1950s noir genre--life is cheap, but the payoffs can be great. Peter Berkrot does very well articulating a cynical but honorable (in his own way) private eye. He voices the characters as they're presented, one by one: tired, tough, profane, arrogant, naòve, ambitious, even idealistic. Most, but not all, are carriers of vast experience and vast contempt. The Boston milieu is recognizable to anyone who's been there. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
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     October 31, 2011
     Talk radio host Carr’s solid fiction debut places its protagonist, Jack Reilly, a disgraced ex-cop turned PI and freelance political fixer, in the same intertwined worlds of Boston organized crime and machine politics explored by the author’s two nonfiction books, The Brothers Bulger and Hitman. A contract hit on ex-con Bucky Bennett leaves Jack the last person to have spoken to the smalltime criminal, who had just told him about finding incriminating financial documents while raiding a bank’s safety deposit boxes. Under pressure from both Det. Mike “Plain View” Evans and gangsters Knocko Nugent and Tony Miami, Jack finds unlikely allies in Boston Herald reporter Katy Bemis and veteran politico Delbert Raymond “Slip” Crowley in uncovering the murder’s connection to Boston’s political establishment. Colorfully corrupt characters and hard-charging storytelling should please some genre fans, but others may find that Jack’s function as the author’s mouthpiece to vent about the city’s changing demographics leaves an aftertaste too bitter even for noir.

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