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Kenneth Abel Cold Steel Rain
Signet 2002 0451205456 / 9780451205452 Paperback Very Good
0451205456 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches From Publishers Weekly Following his well-received debut mystery, Bait, Abel introduces former assistant D.A. Danny Chaisson in a gripping tale of political misdoing and murder set in New Orleans. Now working for a powerful state legislator, Danny is responsible for delivering wads of political payoff money around the New Orleans area. Things start unraveling when five people die in a restaurant shoot-out, two of them Danny's friends. Soon various odd characters get into the act: Jimmy Boudrieux, the corrupt speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives; his chief legislative aide, Lucas Clay; the New Orleans police; beautiful ATF agent Mickie Vega; Jimmy's daughter, Maura; Danny's ex-wife, Helen; a crooked parish deputy and a crooked land developer. Danny, of course, must sort it all out. While the third-person point-of-view requires readers to deduce characters' loyalties from their statements and actions, Abel cleverly inserts tidbits of information to indicate who is on the good side and who is allied with whom. The novel moves fast, yet it retains an atmospheric aura of lethargy. The New Orleans setting is well integrated into the story; the weather descriptions, the slowness of people's daily activities and the duplicity of many of the characters' actions combine to create a dense miasma of sleaziness. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Danny Chaisson resigned from his job as assistant district attorney three years ago to work as a bagman for New Orleans political boss and state senator Jimmy Boudrieux. Danny is resigned to his fate--his old man worked for Boudrieux, too--but then he inadvertently witnesses the murder of a gun runner by Boudrieux's henchmen. Tying up loose ends, Boudrieux puts out a contract on Danny. Life becomes a dangerous cat-and-mouse game for Danny as he scrambles to stay alive while working to bring Boudrieux down. The first in a proposed series of Chaisson novels is a complex, tightly plotted, moody nail-biter in which very little is stated but all is gradually revealed. The impression Chaisson makes early is not the one readers will take away. In the end, Chaisson will endear himself to Dave Robicheaux fans, who will have no trouble imagining the two melancholy crime busters discussing life over chicory-laced coffee and a couple of beignets some steamy New Orleans morning. Among the best first mysteries to have appeared this year. Wes Lukowsky Copyright ? American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Kenneth Abel Cold Steel Rain
Signet 2002 0451205456 / 9780451205452 Mass Market Paperbou Very Good
0451205456 Publisher Comments: ""Among the Best New Crime Series." His critically acclaimed debut, Cold Steel Rain, was "a complex, seductively dark story" (Dallas Morning News) that proved Kenneth Abel "is more than able to write a gripping crime drama that will beguile readers" (Midwest Book Review). Now, Big Easy lawyer Danny Chaisson is back to settle an emotionally charged dispute between the old South and the new--and finds himself caught in the middle.
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