The Player: A Mystery Author: Visit Amazon's Brad Parks Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1250044081 | Format: PDF
The Player: A Mystery Description
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Carter Ross, the hero of this high-spirited novel, book five in the series, is a reporter right down to the tip of his ballpoint pen. His idea of a good guy is someone who returns phone calls right away. His friend wishes he’d get better pants. He’s curious about the world. He can listen if he has to, but he’d really rather talk. Parks begins his story in good news-feature style—unadorned English with a pulse underneath, compulsively readable—and the topic is still fresh. A developer’s project is tearing up ground, neighbors are developing flulike symptoms and dying. Readers may groan when Parks abruptly ends this narrative for a disquisition on Carter’s love life. Fortunately this seems to bore Parks, too, and we’re back to the good stuff: a painstaking inquiry into a real-estate scam with murder at its core. Parks tries for a high-concept finale, but the novel really ends when we learn what the moneybags are up to. Ink-stained heroes are a dying breed. Enjoy this one while you can. --Don Crinklaw
Review
"Muckraking has rarely been so meaty or so funny."—Kirkus (starred review)
"Engaging…Parks smoothly blends grit and wit."—Publishers Weekly
"Unadorned English with a pulse underneath, compulsively readable."—Booklist
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- Series: Carter Ross Mysteries (Book 5)
- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books (March 4, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1250044081
- ISBN-13: 978-1250044082
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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