
Blood Mud
K. C. Constantine(Author)
No Exit Press
Published on 18. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
375 pages
978-1-901982-81-7 (ISBN)
Description
Mario Balzic, retired police chief of Rocksburg Pennsylvania, swaps his service uniform for the shirt and tie of the private cop, trading his former blue-collar beat for a new white-collar clientele. There's been a burglary at the local gun shop, and Balzic must track down the missing arsenal. Stolen guns mean trouble, and under Balzic's dogged sleuthing the said trouble takes the form of a corrupt married politico cheating with a stripper; a police chief a couple of towns over hungry for the influence a little improved firepower can buy; a deli owner known as the Fat Buddha who mixes racketeering with the cold cuts and the gangsters hapless nephew, framed for selling porn and drugs.
Suddenly Balzic is brought low by a cardiac episode. This personal crisis combines with an equally sudden murder to turn a solitary job into a singular mission: to stay alive, at least long enough to crack one more case...
Suddenly Balzic is brought low by a cardiac episode. This personal crisis combines with an equally sudden murder to turn a solitary job into a singular mission: to stay alive, at least long enough to crack one more case...
Reviews / Votes
a bravura bit of writing, maybe the best of a fine series -- Michael Carlson * Crime Time * Terrific...one of contemporary American literature's great masters of dialogue * Washington Post * Balzic is one of the great characters of contemporary fiction * Boston Globe *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bedford Square Publishers
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-901982-81-7 (9781901982817)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
The pseudonymous K. C. Constantine is the author of fourteen previous novels set in Rocksburg Pennsylvania. Of a shy and retiring disposition, he doesn't often give interviews but can be found in an unspecified American city in the 'rust belt'...