Boystown
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- 28,99 €
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- 28,99 €
Publisher Description
Introduction by George Easter, Editor and Publisher of Deadly Pleasures Magazine
Legendary LA sleuth Jack Liffey is back, and facing down a changing world, when his brazen daughter Maeve enlists him to help find Benjy—a gay social justice activist gone missing. Meanwhile, a needless act of violence sets off an urban range war between a group of gun-happy poachers and former Soviet paramilitary soldiers in an unlikely location: West Hollywood. Jack, still recovering from heart surgery and grappling with Maeve’s aspirations to follow in his footsteps, must save the day before the entire community goes up in flames.
In this latest installment of the Jack Liffey series, John Shannon picks up where he left off, taking readers deep into the many, unexplored communities, enclaves and cultures of Los Angeles that sometimes co-exist, sometimes clash, but always surprise. Fans of Vince Flynn will fall deep into the fast-paced, unpredictable, and dangerous world John Shannon creates.
Widely recognized by mystery authors and critics as one of America’s most acclaimed crime fiction writers, John Shannon has authored twenty novels beginning in 1972. His revered Jack Liffey books earned praise from every major publication including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Library Journal.
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Shannon's lackluster 15th outing for Jack Liffey (after The Chinese Beverly Hills) finds the L.A. private eye recovering from a stroke and heart surgery. While he's sidelined, Jack's daughter, UCLA art student Maeve, enlists his help with her own case: her girlfriend's 19-year-old activist brother has gone missing. But a much larger, more complex plot kicks off when racist thug Zeke Tomlin, while poaching deer with his buddies in the Eastern Sierras, wounds Petro Pogorelets, a butterfly collector and philosophy instructor from Ukraine. This random act of violence escalates into a hard-fought war in West Hollywood, pitting the vengeful and resourceful Pogorelets against Tomlin and his crew. While the title nods to West Hollywood's gay population, Shannon's focus is primarily on the neighborhood's rough-and-ready Ukrainian and Russian expats, including a ruthless firebomber and a former special-ops agent. As always, Shannon makes great use of his gritty L.A. setting, but the through line connecting the missing brother to Pogorelets and Tomlin's guerrilla war grows more tenuous as the novel progresses, with opaque allusions to past Liffey novels and excessive exposition shoehorned in to fill in the blanks. This misses the mark.
