{"id":2507,"date":"2019-07-06T07:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2019-07-06T07:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T14:52:51","slug":"on-the-rough-streets-of-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"On the rough streets of D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Moyer is on a roll when it comes to book reviews. Here he takes a look at the latest installment in a crime series that’s worth a try.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer<\/p>\n

TRIGGER. By David Swinson. Mulholland Books. 352 pages. $27.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Frank Marr\u00a0is a good detective with some bad habits \u2013 Laphroag 18, Jameson, rum, cocaine, marijuana and raiding drug houses. It\u2019s a long list of things that can be a Trigger.\u00a0<\/em>He lost his job as a D.C. cop, and his girlfriend, because of drugs. He\u2019s sworn off the hard stuff, depending on a diet of pills and alcohol to keep him from letting \u201c\u2026the weak back in.\u201d\u00a0 He\u2019s surprised, then, when the former girlfriend calls him. She needs help, and he\u2019s the best. She hires him to help clear a\u00a0client of hers, a cop buddy of his named Tony Luna. Tony shot an unarmed guy, but he insists the kid had a gun. She wants Frank to find out if there was a gun. He takes the case, and sets off to prove his buddy wasn\u2019t lying.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the framework of the novel, but the real story here is the relationship between Frank and a guy named Calvin. It\u2019s a \u201cbromance\u201d without much \u201cmance\u201d in it. Frank bumps into Calvin about a year after he left him for dead on a riverbank; Calvin, aka Playboy, was the driver in a shooting. In a series of unusual encounters, Frank ends up hiring Calvin as his assistant. He needs a front man to make contacts and get inside the \u201chood\u201d where the shooting took place. As they head toward an unhappy resolution of Tony\u2019s case, we watch their mutual distrust slowly evolve into a solid working relationship.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all done with a sense of place second only to the work of George Pelecanos, with dialogue to match. Frankie Marr is the most likable anti-hero in current crime literature, and it\u2019s a pleasure to know that he\u2019ll have a new sidekick to banter with, in the next installment of this promising series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Moyer is on a roll when it comes to book reviews. Here he takes a look at the latest installment in a crime series that’s worth a try. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer TRIGGER. By David Swinson. Mulholland Books. 352 pages. $27. Frank Marr\u00a0is a good detective with some bad habits \u2013 Laphroag 18, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590,426,14],"tags":[607,1116,1117],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detective-fiction-mysteries","category-popular-fiction","category-thriller-suspense","tag-crime-fiction","tag-david-swinson","tag-frank-marr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}