<![CDATA[Speak of the Devil: A Novel of Suspense]]>

false <![CDATA[Speak of the Devil: A Novel of Suspense]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172987085m/237021.jpg 237021 9 "From first line to last, Speak of the Devil moves with a rare combination of intrigue and intensity. Its engine runs on high octane adrenalin. Richard Hawke delivers a winner." --Michael Connelly It’s a beautiful Thanksgiving morning in New York City. Perfect day for a parade, and Fritz Malone just happens to have drifted up Central Park West to take a look at the floats. Across the crowd-filled street he sees a gunman on a low wall, taking aim with a shiny black Beretta. Seconds later, the air is filled with bullets and blood. Fritz isn’t one to stand around and watch. A child of Hell’s Kitchen and the bastard son of a beloved former police commissioner, Fritz is all too familiar with the city’s rougher side. As the gunman flees into the park, Fritz runs after him. What he doesn’t know is that he is also running into one of the most shocking and treacherous episodes of his life. Though Fritz assumed that chasing down bad guys is perfectly legal, the cops hustle him from the scene and deliver him to the office of the current commissioner, who informs Fritz that someone dubbed “Nightmare” has been taunting the city’s leaders for weeks, warning of an imminent attack on the citizenry. What’s worse, Nightmare has already let the officials know that the parade gunman was a mere foot soldier and that there’s more carnage to come unless the city meets his impossible demands. The pols don’t dare share this information with anyone–not even the NYPD. What they need for this job is an outside man. And in Fritz they think they’ve got one. Racing against the tightest of clocks, Fritz finds himself confounded by Nightmare’s multiple masks and messengers. The killer is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. But as Fritz’s frantic investigation takes him from a convent in the Bronx to a hookers’ haven in central Brooklyn, the story behind the story–complete with wicked secrets on both sides of the law–begins to emerge. As Fritz zeroes in on the terrible, gruesome truth, the killer retaliates by making things personal, forcing Fritz to grapple with his deepest fear: sometimes nightmares really do come true. In his brilliantly paced and stunningly original debut, Richard Hawke delivers a tale of flawed and unforgettable people operating at the ends of their ropes. It’s literary suspense that doesn’t let go until the last page. From the Hardcover edition. 991055 book 2006 Speak of the Devil: A Novel of Suspense total:62|5:5|4:27|3:24|2:2|1:3| 62 215 92 15 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:45:20 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:45:20 -0800 2009 At once a serial-killer and political thriller as well as a portrait of a city, Speak of the Devil excited some critics while disappointing others. Richard Hawke, the pseudonym for mystery writer Tim Cockey, has penned a smart, entertaining whodunit__but how each element fit together raised some que...

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Random House, 2005-US Hardcover – ISBN: 1400064252
First Sentence: If she had known she would be dead in another five minutes, maybe she wouldn’t have swatted her son so hard.
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It's one of the few this year that hooked me in pretty much from the first few pages, and kept going pretty much throughout. Sure, by the time we're 80% thru the book I was growling "enough already, let's get to the bad guy already", red...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Nov 24 14:08:28 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 24 14:08:50 -0800 2007
The story revolves around the illegitimate son of a former NYC Police Chief who stumbles upon a shooting at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The shooter is killed but the actual mas...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 17 21:30:37 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 21:31:08 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu May 08 18:50:57 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 19:04:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 03 09:56:37 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 19:08:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 01 05:59:09 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 06:00:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Oct 08 05:21:23 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 05:21:55 -0700 2007 TITLE/AUTHOR: SPEAK OF THE DEVIL by Richard Hawke
Rating: 3.5/C+
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Thriller, 2006, 325 pgs
COMMENTS: ARC received at Bouchercon. Thriller set
in NYC, action starts at Thanksgiving parade.
Police corruption, yada, yada. Nothing reall...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed May 28 06:23:33 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 06:26:01 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 16:50:25 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 16:53:15 -0700 2008
I picked it up because Charlaine Harris recommended it. Otherwise I might never have noticed it. ]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 01 19:24:17 -0700 2007 Tue May 01 19:26:32 -0700 2007 Son of police commissioner, stops killing of mayor's girlfriend at parade. Chases shooter, captures the shooter, gets caught by police and finds shooter is killed by police.]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Aug 18 18:15:54 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 18:15:54 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 18:53:26 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 18:53:52 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sun Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Aug 11 16:52:48 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 16:52:48 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Nov 24 10:35:50 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 10:35:50 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 22 17:39:46 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 17:39:53 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 18:41:10 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:41:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Oct 06 05:33:25 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 05:33:25 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Oct 02 05:30:38 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 15:21:33 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 05:30:38 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=237021