Andy Destra is a mostly honest cop in the most notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden city in America: Auction City. After discovering explosive information that reveals corruption within the highest levels of the police department, Andy is kicked off the force, framed, and disgraced, left to wage a lonely one-man crusade against conspiracies he can’t prove. Andy’s investigation plunges him into a blackly comic maelstrom of one-armed gang members, slick pickpockets, criminal syndicates, hired mercenaries, escaped convicts, sewer dwellers, and one sinister ice cream truck. At the same time, he must contend with a mystery closer to home: the true identity of his parents, his most unshakeable obsession. Understanding their past may be the key to Auction City’s future as it teeters on the brink of chaos.
If Andy can’t solve this case, the Floodgate will fail…and his city will burn. LINK 4.5
Wow, I'm stunned. I just finished reading this book and I'm wondering how in heck I can write a review on such an unusual book. But I'm going to do the best I can. The book has a violent start, we are tossed right into The Great Gang War of 1929. Now fast forward to another time zone, Andy is someone who likes to be ready for anything and he is going to be a big part of what is beyond anything he could have imagined. He's someone who gets obsessed in the details of things. He has questions and isn't happy until he can change the question mark to a period. Meaning that he has gotten his answers. I have to admit the going back and forth between 1929 and 1986 threw me at first. It kept me off-balance for a while, especially in the beginning. But after a while I got into its flow. The people in this story really helped move the story. I liked that although Andy was a main character, he was not some muscle-bound hunk but an everyday kind of guy with this own quirks. And physical limitations that he recognized as well. As Andy goes along he's no longer sure who all of the good guys are but he also gets introduced to an unusual, somewhat scary group of people who will have great influence in his future, if he has one. Just to name a few, Rocco, Kate, Champ, Pilar. Oh, and Agnes was something to be admired when it came to impromptu self-defense. These people along with a few others were a team of sorts and displayed great loyaty. This story had shall I say it again, violence but also twists, turns, unusual alliances, a surreal authority set ups. Plenty of action and jockeying for position as well as really good people and culture of the times building. I don't want to give too much away because I want other readers that come behind me to be hit with the surprises just like I was. A story I just couldn't put down.
Even with all the violence, there was still times in the story where it was possible to crack a smile. Yes, the humor was also there as promised. Some of it in thoughts (usually Andy's) and some in words spoken.
I received a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Wow, I'm stunned. I just finished reading this book and I'm wondering how in heck I can write a review on such an unusual book. But I'm going to do the best I can. The book has a violent start, we are tossed right into The Great Gang War of 1929. Now fast forward to another time zone, Andy is someone who likes to be ready for anything and he is going to be a big part of what is beyond anything he could have imagined. He's someone who gets obsessed in the details of things. He has questions and isn't happy until he can change the question mark to a period. Meaning that he has gotten his answers. I have to admit the going back and forth between 1929 and 1986 threw me at first. It kept me off-balance for a while, especially in the beginning. But after a while I got into its flow. The people in this story really helped move the story. I liked that although Andy was a main character, he was not some muscle-bound hunk but an everyday kind of guy with this own quirks. And physical limitations that he recognized as well. As Andy goes along he's no longer sure who all of the good guys are but he also gets introduced to an unusual, somewhat scary group of people who will have great influence in his future, if he has one. Just to name a few, Rocco, Kate, Champ, Pilar. Oh, and Agnes was something to be admired when it came to impromptu self-defense. These people along with a few others were a team of sorts and displayed great loyaty. This story had shall I say it again, violence but also twists, turns, unusual alliances, a surreal authority set ups. Plenty of action and jockeying for position as well as really good people and culture of the times building. I don't want to give too much away because I want other readers that come behind me to be hit with the surprises just like I was. A story I just couldn't put down.
Even with all the violence, there was still times in the story where it was possible to crack a smile. Yes, the humor was also there as promised. Some of it in thoughts (usually Andy's) and some in words spoken.
I received a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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