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Jack Santiago is famous for his investigative stories, for his ability to get under the skin of the rich and famous - and for his reporting on nuclear terrorism in New York. New York, he insists, is on the verge of an attack, an attack by nuclear materials, an attack so sudden and secret that none of the preparations will make any difference. He's obsessed with suitcase nukes, with tiny weapons concealed in bags, easily carried into the city. With the fact that 100,000 people will die of nuclear poisoning. The only problem with Santiago is that he is dead. The other problem is that he made up the stories. It is the night of the August 2003 blackout when Santiago is killed. August 14, when the lights go out up and down the US East Coast. And also the night that Artie Cohen, forever single, still regretting the loss of Lily Hanes who has left him, gets married to Maxine Crabbe. He wants a life, kids, a home; with Maxie, he's convinced himself, he can find it. Santiago's death reveals a history of lies, deceit and falsified stories; Santiago has made up everything, including much of his own life. And in the course of uncovering who killed him, Artie also uncovers the ways in which information is corrupted and turned into propaganda...And then Lily returns...
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Reggie Nadelson's stunning new Artie Cohen novel, set in a New York haunted by the fear of further terrorist attack.
'You won't sleep until you've turned the last page' Guardian --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
All those years of fear, of hiding in Brooklyn,
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This review is from: Red Hook (Mass Market Paperback)
Reggie Nadelson's detective is Artie Cohen, a naturalised Russian-American who has childhood memories of Moscow and his Francophile mother, his KGB father. The novel begins with long, rambling conversations between Artie and an old friend, Sid McKay - an old black gay man who lives on the Red Hook waterfront and has a deep background in journalism and the history of this junked-up neighbourhood with it's long view of Liberty and the gap where the two towers used to be. Ms Nadelson is tremendously keen on atmosphere and she floods her prose with the sights, sounds and feel of New York. The plot gets a little lost in this thick-cut wedge of the Big Apple, but if you give it time the story emerges and meanders towards a strange and frightening episode where Artie is lucky to survive a boat ride on a stormy night. It's all about location, loft-life and lost love for Lily, despite his recent marriage to Maxine. When it comes, the solution to all the meandering is slightly beside the point, but I would read another Nadelson if one came my way.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Red Hook,
By Avid Reader "DMP" (North Yorkshire, ENGLAND) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Red Hook (Hardcover)
This is the first Artie Cohen novel I have read and I was unimpressed! Enjoyed the descriptive parts concerning NYC and Brooklyn, but the story - WHAT story? The book was over half way through before anything happened. I got extremely tired of Artie saying he was "going to the shore" when he obviously had no intention of doing so. This was his honeymoon (supposedly), but he never got there. Also, newly married he still has the definite 'hots' for his previous girlfriend - nice guy!!! An error at the end of the book when he finally heads for New Jersey - this was the tuesday - day after Labour Day in the States - the day when all the schools re-open and people return to work. He had two step-daughters who would obviously have started school that very day and would NOT have still been in New Jersey - bad error.A disappointment and I won't be reading any more of these books.
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3.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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If you love early LeCarre, Paretsky, Furst, and Cruz Smith - you will love Nadelson,
By Eleanor Stein - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Red Hook (Artie Cohen Mysteries) (Paperback)
Artie Cohen is a worthy addition to the pantheon of cynical and brilliant urban detectives both in love with and in rebellion and rejection against his city. For Artie it is New York: not the glitter, but the grime, the ethnic Russian enclaves, the crime worlds and the worlds of working artists and writers. Nadelson suffuses this book with the gripping sense of dread matched only by Arkady Renko's Russia or Smiley's Berlin at their darkest. The diffused sense of distrust: who is a friend? who is a murderer? is someone - worst of all - both? is electrifying and effective. Balanced against this drama is the pull of a new marriage, new family, a hope of normalcy and faith in a wounded city. We admire Artie, we fear for him, we hope he makes healthy choices - and most of all: we immediately order the rest of his saga!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Just Okay,
By Kathryn L. E. Rabinow - Published on Amazon.com
I was disappointed in this book because Londongrod, a more recent work, is phenomenal page turner. This book I found to be just 'okay'.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing!,
By Omax - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Red Hook (Artie Cohen Mysteries) (Paperback)
I'm not sorry that I read it, but it turned out to be all talk and no action. So much for me and Artie Cohen!
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