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Loading... Hard Line (2024)by Gerry Boyle
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Hard Line, the final book in master crime writer Gerry Boyle's long-running and award-winning Jack McMorrow series, concludes the two-book story arc he started in Robbed Blind with action ripped from current events as well as visits from old characters. McMorrow finds himself balancing a personal vendetta against the dangerous man who has abused a family friend with a lethal biker gang hunting for him and his crew. Not to mention fielding calls from reporters and dealing with growing suspicions about his daughter's new teacher. In McMorrow's last adventure, he must use his decades of talent in a stand-off between the forces of violent chaos and law and order-all set amidst the quiet pines, rough towns, and gray skies of rural Maine. As he faces down the end of everything he has held sacred-can Jack keep it all together without becoming the very thing he hates? If he even survives. No library descriptions found. |
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Hard Line is Book #14 in Gerry Boyle’s Jack McMorrow Mystery series. Published in June 2024, the title is a continuation of Robbed Blind, Book #13 published in 2022.
This is the last book of the series. The final book/chapter of the long-running, award-winning Jack McMorrow series.
Gerry Boyle is a Maine author, very gifted in the ‘art of NOIR’, gifted in his Jack Morrow character and gifted in his very realistic descriptions of central Maine and its citizens.
Gerry Boyle’s early career was a journalist, reporting for the Rumford Falls Times and then for the Waterville Morning Sentinel as a reporter and columnist, which is where I first became acquainted with his work.
I like Mr. Boyle’s writing very much. It is tense, descriptive, to the point, realistic, well-plotted and very personal. It is very NOIR. NOIR is a genre of crime fiction which is characterized by cynicism, fatalism and moral ambiguity. NOIR is gritty, ‘hard-boiled’ and (my favorite description) ‘whiskey neat’.
The plot of Hard Line is complex and is a continuation of the plot and characters in Robbed Blind. Jack McMorrow “finds himself balancing a personal vendetta against the dangerous man who has abused a family friend with a lethal biker gang hunting for him and his crew.”
I ‘won’ both books, Robbed Blind and Hard Line, from Library Thing’s Early Reviewers Giveaway. I would recommend both titles with 5 Stars *****. (