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Title: First in a series which gets more entertaining
Review: First of all, if you're new to Charlie Stella, this is the place to start. His books overlaps loosely, and reading them out of order is going to cause you to read many spoilers you don't want.Eddie's world shows a bit of roughness around the edges. As his works mature, he gets his timing down much better and becomes more adept at telling a fast paced story from multiple points of view.That said, there is a lot to admire here. He sets up the dramatic tension between the protagonist and his wife quite well, and things just explode from there. The villains are amoral, the 'heroes' are ambiguous as hell, and the dilemmas they get themselves in are often tragi-comedic. As with later works, conflicts between various police agencies are rendered with a high sense of irony.Stella will get a better ear for dialog as his career progresses, but his command of street patois is already ahead of the vast majority of his contemporaries. This is a very enjoyable read.
