One Good Eye
A Jeep Mullane Novel
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
After Johnny Careless, the “fast-moving classic crime novel” (John Sandford), comes the lively next installment in the Jeep Mullane series from veteran screenwriter and Blue Bloods showrunner Kevin Wade.
As a hurricane makes landfall on Long Island’s Gold Coast, Police Chief Jeep Mullane responds to a plea for help at the estate of his longtime friend Jenny Racine, who has been violently assaulted in a home invasion. Jenny was the girl next door growing up, is now a rich and famous entrepreneur, and has always been a compelling, infuriating, and magnetic presence in his life.
Though Jenny is adamant she wants no investigation of the incident, Jeep sets off on a lonely and dangerous path to find out who attacked her. As he makes alarming discoveries, he must pry open the secrets of Jenny’s ex-military ex-husband, a fugitive police captain, officious federal agents, steely blue-blooded women, and two local biker gangs, casting aside his protocol as a police chief to challenge the criminals himself.
All this unfolds across five action-packed days and twenty-five years of shared past as Jeep must grapple with his complicated history with Jenny, the thorny customs and secrets of his homeland, and a long-buried truth that leads him to the painful resolution.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of former Blue Bloods showrunner Wade's lackluster sequel to Johnny Careless, Long Island police chief Jeep Mullane responds to an urgent phone call from his childhood friend Jenny Racine, who has been brutally assaulted during a home invasion. Jenny, a successful entrepreneur, is determined to avoid publicity and refuses to file a police report or identify her attacker. Concerned for his friend's safety, Jeep investigates on his own and discovers that Jenny was the target of a blackmail scheme and the assault was intended to pressure her into paying more money. As Jeep digs deeper, he uncovers overlapping federal investigations into trafficking schemes by a Canadian biker gang and a seafaring family of bootleggers who are related to Jenny's estranged husband, Aaron. Tensions escalate after Aaron's brother dies in a motorcycle crash and rumors spread he was a confidential informant for the feds. Wade does a fine job underlining how tricky Jeep's job is in a small town where he's bound by lifelong relationships, but the narrative never attaches that insight to a truly satisfying mystery. Marred by too much tedious backstory and too many underheated set pieces, this is a step down from its predecessor.
