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Day of the Tiger
(Carlos McCrary #5)
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Opposites attract, right? Tank Tyler is a mega-wealthy investment manager and Pro Football Hall of Famer. Al Rice, a victim of drugs and self-pity, has been a miserable failure since being kicked off the football team years ago. The two men share a sordid secret that ruined Al’s life and turned Tank’s dreams into nightmares for sixteen years, in spite of his success—a secr
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Kindle Edition, 315 pages
Published
March 6th 2016
by Seven Oaks Publishing LLC
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Carlos McCrary is a private investigator, not a cop, thank you very much (quite possibly my favorite running gag throughout the entire novel). Hired by a millionaire, ex-NFL hotshot to help a friend, McCrary’s life just got a lot more exciting.
Now, please believe me when I say that this is, at its core, wholly a private eye novel. A modernized version, for sure, but it stays mostly true to the formula. It didn’t follow the ‘damsel in distress’ trope as much as others seem to. That was nice. Whil ...more
Now, please believe me when I say that this is, at its core, wholly a private eye novel. A modernized version, for sure, but it stays mostly true to the formula. It didn’t follow the ‘damsel in distress’ trope as much as others seem to. That was nice. Whil ...more

Reviewed by Michelle Stanley for Readers' Favorite
Day of the Tiger (A Carlos McCrary Novel, Volume 5) is a mystery/sleuth by Dallas Gorham. Al Rice is a drunk gambler who owes loan shark, Monster Mofett, money he can’t repay. Monster tortures him and Al asks his wealthy friend, Tank Tyler, for help. Tank hires Carlos McCrary, a P.I., to protect Al, who has disappeared, but Al’s mother, Doraleen, is in danger when Teddy, Monster’s heartless thug, pays her a visit.
Monster’s plans for Al change af ...more
Day of the Tiger (A Carlos McCrary Novel, Volume 5) is a mystery/sleuth by Dallas Gorham. Al Rice is a drunk gambler who owes loan shark, Monster Mofett, money he can’t repay. Monster tortures him and Al asks his wealthy friend, Tank Tyler, for help. Tank hires Carlos McCrary, a P.I., to protect Al, who has disappeared, but Al’s mother, Doraleen, is in danger when Teddy, Monster’s heartless thug, pays her a visit.
Monster’s plans for Al change af ...more

Day of the Tiger by Dallas Gorham, 313 pages, Seven Oaks Publishing LLC, March 6th 2016, Genre: Hard-Boiled Mystery. Warning: May Contain Spoilers.
Review by Leigh Holland.
Day of the Tiger is the fifth installment of a seven book series featuring private detective Carlos McCrary. Carlos “Chuck” McCrary served his country in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to make the world a bit safer and better, and has the battle scars to prove it. Now a private detective, Chuck continues his quest to make the wo ...more
Review by Leigh Holland.
Day of the Tiger is the fifth installment of a seven book series featuring private detective Carlos McCrary. Carlos “Chuck” McCrary served his country in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to make the world a bit safer and better, and has the battle scars to prove it. Now a private detective, Chuck continues his quest to make the wo ...more

Title – Day of the Tiger
Author Dallas Gorham
Genre – Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
313 Amazon Pages
Rating 5 stars out of 5 Posted 8/11/2017
No. 54 - 2017
My impressions: violence, drugs, prostitutes, human trafficking, kidnapping, good cop, diabolical criminals.
Main Characters:
Carlos McCrary – ex detective, P.I.
Thomas “Tank” Tyler – retired football player, CPA, multi-millionaire.
Al Rice – destitute gambler, disgraced football player, irresponsible bum.
Doraleen Rice, Al’s mother.
Montgomery “Monste ...more
Author Dallas Gorham
Genre – Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
313 Amazon Pages
Rating 5 stars out of 5 Posted 8/11/2017
No. 54 - 2017
My impressions: violence, drugs, prostitutes, human trafficking, kidnapping, good cop, diabolical criminals.
Main Characters:
Carlos McCrary – ex detective, P.I.
Thomas “Tank” Tyler – retired football player, CPA, multi-millionaire.
Al Rice – destitute gambler, disgraced football player, irresponsible bum.
Doraleen Rice, Al’s mother.
Montgomery “Monste ...more

The Day of the Tiger
Dallas Gorham
March, 2016
274 pages (followed by other book excerpts), $3.99 Kindle
Seven Oaks Press LLC
ISBN 13 978-1530435548
“Be less like a sheep and more like a tiger,” private investigator and narrator Chuck McCrary tells Al Rice, the man he’s hired to help (216). This fifth book in the McCrary series might at first seem like a typical cat and mouse chase, but it’s more than that; it’s about finding truth, finding a reason to pursue right over wrong. Al has hit rock bottom ...more
Dallas Gorham
March, 2016
274 pages (followed by other book excerpts), $3.99 Kindle
Seven Oaks Press LLC
ISBN 13 978-1530435548
“Be less like a sheep and more like a tiger,” private investigator and narrator Chuck McCrary tells Al Rice, the man he’s hired to help (216). This fifth book in the McCrary series might at first seem like a typical cat and mouse chase, but it’s more than that; it’s about finding truth, finding a reason to pursue right over wrong. Al has hit rock bottom ...more

"Day of the Tiger", the 5th book in the Carlos McCrary
Private Eye series, was the first book I have read in this
series; it will not be my last! A Good Read!
RECOMMENDED ...more
Private Eye series, was the first book I have read in this
series; it will not be my last! A Good Read!
RECOMMENDED ...more
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Dallas Gorham is a sixth-generation Texan and a proud Texas Longhorn, having earned a Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated in the top three-quarters of his class, maybe.
Dallas is also a reluctant Dallas Cowboy fan (Cowboy fans: You know how it is. But he has no choice… He’s named after them, sort of.) Like his fictional hero, Chuck McCrary, he now ...more
Dallas is also a reluctant Dallas Cowboy fan (Cowboy fans: You know how it is. But he has no choice… He’s named after them, sort of.) Like his fictional hero, Chuck McCrary, he now ...more
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