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Dylan Klein #1
Life Goes Sleeping
Dylan Klein, an insurance investigator, teams up with ex-New York City Police detective Johnny MacClough as life in post-Cold War Brooklyn begins to get complicated, clients begin dying, and simple survival becomes the ultimate goal
271 pages, Hardcover
First published July 31, 1991
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Reed Farrel Coleman
166 books752 followersaka Tony Spinosa
Reed Farrel Coleman’s love of storytelling originated on the streets of Brooklyn and was nurtured by his teachers, friends, and family.
A New York Times bestseller called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan and the “noir poet laureate” in the Huffington Post, Reed is the author of novels, including Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series, the acclaimed Moe Prager series, short stories, and poetry.
Reed is a three-time Edgar Award nominee in three different categories—Best Novel, Best Paperback Original, Best Short Story—and a three-time recipient of the Shamus Award for Best PI Novel of the Year. He has also won the Audie, Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards.
A former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America, Reed is an adjunct instructor of English at Hofstra University and a founding member of MWA University. Brooklyn born and raised, he now lives with his family–including cats Cleo and Knish–in Suffolk County on Long Island.
Reed Farrel Coleman’s love of storytelling originated on the streets of Brooklyn and was nurtured by his teachers, friends, and family.
A New York Times bestseller called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan and the “noir poet laureate” in the Huffington Post, Reed is the author of novels, including Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series, the acclaimed Moe Prager series, short stories, and poetry.
Reed is a three-time Edgar Award nominee in three different categories—Best Novel, Best Paperback Original, Best Short Story—and a three-time recipient of the Shamus Award for Best PI Novel of the Year. He has also won the Audie, Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards.
A former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America, Reed is an adjunct instructor of English at Hofstra University and a founding member of MWA University. Brooklyn born and raised, he now lives with his family–including cats Cleo and Knish–in Suffolk County on Long Island.
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August 20, 2021
Dylan Klein has now joined the family of Coleman protagonists I enjoy, joining Gus Murphy, Moe Prager and Gulliver Dowd. I had to take one star away because the plot got a little more complicated than I like but, in the end, this was unputdownable- which is my major judgement factor.
January 28, 2023
Dylan Klein, insurance investigator. Depressed after his mothers funeral takes ride to his old Brighten Beach neighborhood only to have his VW break down. From there it is a story of chance. Chance at meeting people, chance at getting involved in a scandal that he feels that he needs to get to the bottom of.
Tons of questions throughout, who or who not to trust. Great story.
Tons of questions throughout, who or who not to trust. Great story.
September 10, 2007
Life Goes Sleeping - G
Coleman, Reed Farrel - 1st book
Insurance-investigator Dylan Klein seems closer to reality than most tough-guy protagonists. Klein is asked by an old Russian ‚migr‚ to track down a man in a faded WW II photograph. Thereafter, he is immediately knocked unconscious, awakening to a headless corpse and threatening telephone calls from an enemy who seems always to be in the right place to fire a bullet through the window or to know everything Klein does. But why does this seeming killer want Klein to find the same man his apparently dead client did? And is the beautiful woman who claims to be the client's daughter for real? Our hero and his ex-NYPD police detective friend Johnny MacClough try to figure it all out, exposing an unlikely political tangle involving the National Security Agency and Russian and Israeli agents.
His 1st book-good but too much WWII intrigue overlays the plot
Coleman, Reed Farrel - 1st book
Insurance-investigator Dylan Klein seems closer to reality than most tough-guy protagonists. Klein is asked by an old Russian ‚migr‚ to track down a man in a faded WW II photograph. Thereafter, he is immediately knocked unconscious, awakening to a headless corpse and threatening telephone calls from an enemy who seems always to be in the right place to fire a bullet through the window or to know everything Klein does. But why does this seeming killer want Klein to find the same man his apparently dead client did? And is the beautiful woman who claims to be the client's daughter for real? Our hero and his ex-NYPD police detective friend Johnny MacClough try to figure it all out, exposing an unlikely political tangle involving the National Security Agency and Russian and Israeli agents.
His 1st book-good but too much WWII intrigue overlays the plot
November 2, 2015
This first book in the Dylan Klein series was a good book and one that shows some hints of the writer that Reed Farrel Coleman has become. The first book I read by Reed Farrel Coleman was Walking the Perfect Square, the first book in the Moe Prager series. That book is a great start to a great series. I'll read the other two Dylan Klein books but I'm more interested in finishing the remainder of the Moe Prager series.
April 13, 2015
I liked the main character, Dylan Klein, who happens to be Jewish. It is a little confusing keeping track of all the people who are interested in Dylan.
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