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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451219152
ISBN number: 0451219155
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: August 01, 2006
Publishing house: Signet
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Soldier. Cop. Lawyer. Dismas Hardy's done the tough jobs, and had some tough luck. Now he's kicking back and tending bar at the Shamrock in San Francisco. But the past returns in the form of Rusty Ingraham-a former fellow prosecutor who drops by for a drink, warning Hardy that a perp they put away nearly ten years ago just got released...and might still be looking for revenge. Next thing Hardy knows, Ingraham's houseboat becomes a murder scene, with a dead woman on board and Ingraham, presumably, at the bottom of the bay. To save himself, Hardy's got to solve the case. But there's more than one kind of payback, and it's not just the ex-con who might have wanted it. Now, as he tangles with a mob enforcer, a rejected lover, and a renegade cop, Hardy is haunted by the knowledge that the later you pay, the steeper the price.
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I enjoy books by this author a lot. He has a few main characters that appear in his books. They are books about cops and lawyers. This one was especially good and game me background on the character Dismas Hardy that I didn't have before (I had read some of the newer books first). This story has lots of twists and turns. While you might figure out some of the plot spoilers early, it is unlikely that you'll catch them all.
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This is the second book in the Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitzky series based in San Francisco. In it, Dismas Hardy is the co-owner of The Shamrock, an Irish Pub, with his good friend Moses McGuire. At the beginning, he is seeing his ex-wife, Jane, tending bar, and basically trying to figure out where his life is going.
The bar is empty when a ghost from his D.A past, Rusty Ingraham comes into the bar, and tells Hardy that a con who threatened to kill Rusty and Dismas upon his release from prison was being released. They set up a way to keep in contact with each other to make sure that the other was still alive. When Dismas calls Rusty the subsequent day for thier daily check-in, the same day that the convict was to be released from prison, and Rusty does not answer, Dismas gets a feeling in the pit of his stomach, and goes down to Rusty's houseboat to make sure he's okay.
When Dismas gets there, however, Rusty is missing. Left behind is the naked body of a dead woman shot in the head. There is a trail of blood, assumed to be Rusty's, leading out of the room, and off the side of the boat. Having his old friend disappear the same day that Louis Baker gets released from prison is too much of a coincidence for Hardy to handle. He immediately blames Baker for the murder, and goes to stay with Moses McGuire's sister, Frannie, to keep Baker from tracking him down.
What seems like a simple, shut-and-closed case of murder turns out to be much more complicated than Hardy or Abe Glitzky could have imagined. What follows is Hardy trying to put the pieces of the murder and his life together.
While not as riveting as some of the later books in the series, 'The Vig' does stand on it's own as a good, convoluted murder mystery.
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This is the very first of the series I read, but definitely not the last.
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I almost abandoned this book like three times. Was Dismus really a cop in other books? Because I'm a housewife in Ohio and I know better than to stand on the edge of a cliff with a bad guy. Dismus is the hapless victim of everything in the story, including his affair with a pregnant woman only four months widowed. I had the ending figured out well before halfway, a record for me and a sad indictment of the story. The only person I cared about in the whole book was the convicted felon -- another sad indictment. I should have bailed early, and given this mutt one star.
I rate books as follows:
***** Fun and meaningful book, or changed/challenged me in a positive way.
****Really fun or meaningful; well worth the time.
***Pleasantly skimmed the surface; not memorable.
**Plodded through.
*Abandoned; very flawed.
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As always, I loved, the main characters. The plot, just did not, hold my attention. Not nearly as well done, as, THE MERCY RULE.
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