Connections
Jack Contino Crime Stories, no. 1
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4.5 • 2개의 평가
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Some people seek out connections. Jack Contino does it for a living. A cop knows how to link people and events. Maria Falcone connects people and places: the city of Boston, a rural New Hampshire college town, a Boston hit man, a college professor . . .
Jack Contino is a veteran cop with the Metropolitan District Commission Police Department. He often works with the FBI; a gangland massacre puts him in pursuit of a killer, but the trail takes an unexpected turn.
Maria connects by leading a double life: college coed during the week; high priced call girl on weekends. A professor loves her. A mobster uses her. Her future depends on one of them.
Ben Secani learned to kill for his country in Vietnam and finds opportunity in the Boston Mob.
The action puts these people on a collision course, and the result changes their lives forever.
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The Barnstable Patriot
Jack Contino, a veteran cop with Boston’s METS (Metropolitan District Commission Police), often assists the FBI with investigations of the mob. A brutal gangland slaying that leaves four men dead has left Jack and his partner, Leo, without much to go on, until the name “Secani” surfaces as the possible hit man. Jack and Leo are determined to find the killer – and take down as many higher-ups as they can.
This vigorous, well-plotted crime concoction takes a straight-on look at the tangles and snares involved in stepping outside the “social contract,” and it’s a kind of morality tale without the classroom lecture. It’s pretty well done, too. The author has wisely limited his word count, so it feels just about right, and we’re left with the sense of an inaugural job well done.