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Jack "Keeper" Marconi #4
The Corruptions
When two cons doing several respective back to back life sentences for murder make a daring, if not Hollywood style escape from the Dannemora Maximum Security Prison in Upstate, New York, Jack Marconi PI receives a personal invitation from the Governor of New York State to track the murderers down, and deliver them personally to the front door of the Governor’s Mansion on Eagle Street. But what Marconi and his side-kick, Blood, don’t yet realize, is that something more insidious than a simple prison break has occurred in the small town of Dannemora. Because in the course of tracking the criminals down, the two gumshoes will also expose the Crypt, an insidious operation taking place down deep inside the depths of the 160 year old prison. What kind operation is it? Something so evil it will reduce the tough-as-nails Marconi to tears.
From bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes a riveting crime novel in the acclaimed mystery series that fans of Michael Connelly, Charlie Huston, Robert B. Parker will devour. The Corruptions is sure to keep you up all night.
From bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes a riveting crime novel in the acclaimed mystery series that fans of Michael Connelly, Charlie Huston, Robert B. Parker will devour. The Corruptions is sure to keep you up all night.
320 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2017
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Vincent Zandri
224 books576 followers"Vincent Zandri is one of the most acclaimed thriller writers working today!" --Publishers Weekly
“Zandri (is) a veteran wordsmith who executes quality and quantity at superlative levels.” --Book Reporter
"The story of Vincent Zandri is the story of our times."
--Business Insider
"Vincent Zandri hails from the future."
--The New York Times
“Sensational . . . masterful . . . brilliant.”
--New York Post
"...big time author..."
--Digital Journal
Considered one of the most prolific writers of his generation, Vincent Zandri is the winner of the 2015 PWA Shamus Award and the 2015 ITW Thriller Award, both for MOONLIGHT WEEPS in the Best Original Paperback category. He is also the NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and AMAZON KINDLE OVERALL NO.1 bestselling author of hundreds of novels, novellas, and stories, including THE REMAINS, MOONLIGHT WEEPS, THE EMBALMER, THE SHROUD KEY and QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT. His list of domestic publishers includes Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer, Blackstone Audio, Tantor Media, and more. He is also the CEO of Bear Media. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, his work is translated in the Dutch, Russian, French, Italian, and Japanese. Having sold over 1 million editions of his books, Zandri has been the subject of major features by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Business Insider. He has also made appearances on Bloomberg TV and the FOX News network. In December 2014, Suspense Magazine named Zandri's, THE SHROUD KEY, as one of the "Best Books of 2014." Suspense Magazine selected WHEN SHADOWS COME as one of the "Best Books of 2016". He was also a finalist for the 2019 Derringer Award for Best Novelette. A freelance photojournalist, freelance writer, and the host of the popular YouTube Podcast, "The Writer's Life," Zandri has written for Strategy Magazine, RT, Living Ready Magazine, New York Newsday, Hudson Valley Magazine, The Times Union (Albany), Game & Fish Magazine, CrimeReads, Altcoin Magazine, The Jerusalem Post (ghost), Market Business News (ghost), Duke University (ghost), Colgate University (ghost), New York University (ghost), The Rice University Gazette (ghost), Yale University (ghost), Digital Journal (ghost), and many more. An Active Member of ITW, he lives in New York and Florence, Italy. For more go to WWW.VINZANDRI.COM
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September 19, 2019
I didn't like this one as well as I did The Caretakers Wife. This one I had a harder time following along on what was happening and who was who.
February 5, 2017
Exellent
I have read many of Mr. Zandri's books, and as always he delivers. This book is indeed a great read. However it also makes you wonder just how much could be done in a corrupt prison, given the right circumstances. Way to go Mr. Zandri. This one is not only a great book with a great plot, but a thinker as well! Loved it.
I have read many of Mr. Zandri's books, and as always he delivers. This book is indeed a great read. However it also makes you wonder just how much could be done in a corrupt prison, given the right circumstances. Way to go Mr. Zandri. This one is not only a great book with a great plot, but a thinker as well! Loved it.
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March 14, 2017Beach reading, fun, fast and nothing memorable.
April 26, 2017
The Corruptions
Mysterious Book Report No. 282
by John Dwaine McKenna
Ever notice how things seem to go in repeating cycles? Either there’s always . . . or never . . . a parking spot when you’re running late for an appointment, for example. You either breeze right in whistling a happy tune, or show up twenty minutes late, all sweaty, red-faced and cursing under your breath at the vagaries of the universe and the inconsiderate hog who took up two spaces.
Sometimes, writing the MBR is like that; it either comes easily, or it’s as tough as no-Novocain dentistry. This week’s report is such a one. Ouch!!
The Corruptions, (Polis Books, $25.99, 256 pages, ISBN 978-1-943818-37-2) by Vincent Zandri, starts with a plot that’s ripped right out of last year’s headline news. Remember when the two cons broke out of one of the New York State’s most maximum security penitentiaries with a help of a love struck lady corrections Officer? So begins Mr. Zandri’s novel, as cellmates Reginald Moss and Derrick Sweet saw their way out of Little Siberia, otherwise known as The Clinton Correctional Facility, in Dannemora, New York—just twenty miles south of the Canadian border—with the help of a female CO named Joyce Matthews. As a massive manhunt involving the NY State troopers, Clinton County Sheriff’s Office, the Candin Mounted Police, the U.S. Marshall Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Governor Leon Valente calls in Private Investigator Jack “Keeper” Marconi and hires him to find the escapes before anyone else does and bring them straight to his office.
What follows is a pastiche of borrowings from other writers such as Robert B. Parker, Stephen King, Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler . . . as well as the lifting of one of the most memorable scenes from the HBO Series Deadwood, in which Ian McShane as Swearengen and Keone Young as Mr. Wu are having a discussion in which Swerengen uses a crude epithet describing what some folks consider a deviant act of sexual congress, and Mr. Wu because of his limited English language, begins using the same vulgarity to describe everyone at which point Swearengen begins encouraging Mr. Wu, because he finds it amusing. Anyone who’s seen the series will remember the scene. Personally, I hated seeing it recycled without credit like that, and under normal circumstances would have quit the book then and there. But, something kept me at it, and I’m glad I did, because thereafter, the plot bloomed as it expanded with renewed energy and originality, action and enthusiasum, leading to a thrilling, satisfying, unexpected conclusion you’ll never see coming. While it probably won’t be a hit with some law enforcers, it will be an exciting, entertaining and enthralling piece of crime fiction for all the rest of us. With more than twenty-five novels to his name, Mr. Zandri knows how to spin a yarn! Read it yourself and see.
Like the review . . . let your friends know, You saw it in the Mysterious Book Report . . .
Mysterious Book Report No. 282
by John Dwaine McKenna
Ever notice how things seem to go in repeating cycles? Either there’s always . . . or never . . . a parking spot when you’re running late for an appointment, for example. You either breeze right in whistling a happy tune, or show up twenty minutes late, all sweaty, red-faced and cursing under your breath at the vagaries of the universe and the inconsiderate hog who took up two spaces.
Sometimes, writing the MBR is like that; it either comes easily, or it’s as tough as no-Novocain dentistry. This week’s report is such a one. Ouch!!
The Corruptions, (Polis Books, $25.99, 256 pages, ISBN 978-1-943818-37-2) by Vincent Zandri, starts with a plot that’s ripped right out of last year’s headline news. Remember when the two cons broke out of one of the New York State’s most maximum security penitentiaries with a help of a love struck lady corrections Officer? So begins Mr. Zandri’s novel, as cellmates Reginald Moss and Derrick Sweet saw their way out of Little Siberia, otherwise known as The Clinton Correctional Facility, in Dannemora, New York—just twenty miles south of the Canadian border—with the help of a female CO named Joyce Matthews. As a massive manhunt involving the NY State troopers, Clinton County Sheriff’s Office, the Candin Mounted Police, the U.S. Marshall Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Governor Leon Valente calls in Private Investigator Jack “Keeper” Marconi and hires him to find the escapes before anyone else does and bring them straight to his office.
What follows is a pastiche of borrowings from other writers such as Robert B. Parker, Stephen King, Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler . . . as well as the lifting of one of the most memorable scenes from the HBO Series Deadwood, in which Ian McShane as Swearengen and Keone Young as Mr. Wu are having a discussion in which Swerengen uses a crude epithet describing what some folks consider a deviant act of sexual congress, and Mr. Wu because of his limited English language, begins using the same vulgarity to describe everyone at which point Swearengen begins encouraging Mr. Wu, because he finds it amusing. Anyone who’s seen the series will remember the scene. Personally, I hated seeing it recycled without credit like that, and under normal circumstances would have quit the book then and there. But, something kept me at it, and I’m glad I did, because thereafter, the plot bloomed as it expanded with renewed energy and originality, action and enthusiasum, leading to a thrilling, satisfying, unexpected conclusion you’ll never see coming. While it probably won’t be a hit with some law enforcers, it will be an exciting, entertaining and enthralling piece of crime fiction for all the rest of us. With more than twenty-five novels to his name, Mr. Zandri knows how to spin a yarn! Read it yourself and see.
Like the review . . . let your friends know, You saw it in the Mysterious Book Report . . .
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