Genre: Noir/Hard-Boiled/Crime Fiction
Description:
“Two women and a child are murdered. Dust,
who unknowingly set them up, returns to Berkeley to find the killer. With his
old buddy Karma in tow, Dust discovers that one of the culprits was Vollmer, a
ruthless hired gun working for Dust’s former boss, Rico. When Vollmer finds out
Dust is in town the hunt becomes mutual.
In this, the third book of the Uncle Dust
series, old debts are paid and new ones incurred. Brutish, dangerous men lurk
in every corner and slaughter runs rampant.”
Author:
“Rob Pierce wrote the novels Uncle Dust and With The Right
Enemies, the novella Vern In The Heat, and the short story
collection The Things I Love Will Kill Me Yet. Editor of Swill
Magazine, an editorial consultant with All Due Respect Books, and co-editor at Flash
Fiction Offensive, Rob has been nominated for a Derringer Award for short
crime fiction and has had stories published in numerous ugly magazines. He
lives and will probably die in Oakland, California.”
Appraisal:
The protagonist of this book is technically named Dustin, but his
nickname, Dust, fits him much better. Why? Well generally because he’s dirty,
as in not a very nice person in many ways. He’s done a lot of bad things in his
life and they don’t stop in our story here. But it’s easy to forgive him, even
as the body counts are steadily climbing as the story goes on, because Dust is
back on the streets of the East Bay, mainly in Oakland and Berkeley, with the
intent of finding whoever it was that killed two of his former girlfriends along
with a child of one of them. Those deaths might have happened in an effort to
get Dust back in the Bay Area so the local crime boss could exact some revenge.
Doesn’t matter. Dust can’t let this go unanswered. If you’re really into
hard-boiled, maybe you like your hard-boiled eggs as hard as a rock and the
bodies piled up as high as a San Francisco high rise, then this is definitely the
book for you.
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FYI:
This genre isn’t the one to read if you’re offended by strong language,
adult situations, or violence of any kind in your reading material. Consider
yourself warned. It appears that this is the third book in a series featuring
Dust, but this story stands alone well, there is no need to have read prior
books in the series to understand what is going on in this one.
Format/Typo
Issues:
Review is based on an advance reader copy, so I can’t judge the final
product in this area.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 55-60,000 words
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