- Hardcover: 402 pages
- Publisher: Mysterious Pr; First Edition edition (Nov 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0892965460
- ISBN-13: 978-0892965465
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,214,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The scene is Quinsigamond, a decaying New England factory town, a model locale of turn-of-the-century chaos. An activist priest meets a grisly death in his own cathedral. The crime has all the earmarks of a routine Bangkok Park gang killing. But the perp is no everyday low-life but a demented ex-FBI agent named Speer in search of the jammers, particularly the infamous O'Zebedee brothers who ahve been hijacking local radio airwaves with their singualr brand of subversive diatribe.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I still rate this book as one of the best ever - it gets read on a regular basis. The ideas behind it, freedom of speech, anarchy, personal development, talk radio in the US, all this AND a warped kind of love story mixed in with everything else - and done neatly and properly. Hard to believe it's only O'Connell's second novel. For me Quinsigamond comes alive in this book- bits are cross-referenced from the first novel, Box Nine, but you don't need to have read it first - this is a self-contained story, only referring to earlier stuff for the die-hard fans. But the story here is king - all the separate parts slowly coming together in an unexpected fashion, and a surprise finale that actually IS a surprise - quite a rarity in these times of audeince research and "satisfying" endings. All I can say is that it's worth picking up just on the off-chance - I only know of one person who hated it, against the ten to fiteen who I've loaned it to who have loved it, and then gone and bought their own copies!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A must read book!
23 April 1998
Format:Paperback
Borderline urban realism gets a wake-up call from Hades; this is top drawer suspense writing. Take a dash of Elmore Leonard, a healthy sprinkling of James Crumley, season well with the sensibilities of James Lee Burke, and shake well with sheer originality and true talent and you get Jack O'Connell. It really doesn't get any better than this.
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