The Blue Wall
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
‘The Blue Wall isn’t just good; it crackels, zings and sizzles’
—Washington Post
Hooking his latest corpse out of the Brooklyn River, the NYPD's Dave Moser opened a can of worms bigger than he ever hoped to see.
Eva Cruz is beautiful, but very dead; her father is the first shiny link in a corrupt chain that leads to a multi-million-dollar racket with Moser's best buddy playing cop liaison. Overnight Detective Moser finds himself outside the Blue Wall—his so-called friends locked inside a conspiracy of silence.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Resonant prose and a murky narrative result in a mixed verdict for this second work from the author of Bait. A girl's body is pulled from the Harlem River. Her Guatemalan father, Adalberto Cruz, and his silent bodyguard seem less than sorrowful. Dave Moser is the good cop on the case. Across town, a motor-mouthed mob guy is getting ready to testify against his buddies, and Deputy Marshall Claire Locke is in charge of guarding him. Part of his testimony involves regular payments made to cops. Abel's observant eye and clipped writing are considerably more accomplished than his pacing. The informant is a would-be comic whose lame patter drags on; the action lags similarly. Moser, in the midst of divorce proceedings, acts as though he's a cog in machinery whose controls are beyond his reach; both he and the readers spend time waiting for something to happen. At the same time, we watch a crooked cop and wait for him to get snarled up by Internal Affairs or to brutally silence his detractors, nearly forgetting, meanwhile, about Moser and the floater. Abel is a talented writer and he delivers a stunning conclusion, but getting there is heavy going.
