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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780553384086
ISBN number: 0553384082
Label: Bantam
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: June 26, 2007
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: June 26, 2007
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From the moment he saw the girl in the snowstorm, Flynn had less than an hour to live. But he’ll remember his last fifty minutes long after he’s dead. As an investigator for Suffolk County Child Protective Services, Flynn has seen more than his share of misery, but nothing could prepare him for the nightmare inside the Shepards’ million-dollar Long Island home. In less than an hour, that nightmare will send him plunging into a frozen harbor—and awaken him to a reality even more terrifying.
They’ve nicknamed Flynn “The Miracle Man” because few have ever been resuscitated after being dead so long. But a determined homicide detective and a beautiful, inquisitive reporter have questions about what really happened at the Shepard house—and why the people around Flynn are suddenly being murdered. Flynn has questions of his own, especially when one of the victims dies while handing him a note: THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT. Flynn has returned from the Midnight Road—and someone wants to send him back.
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I hadn't read anything from Tom Picciirilli before but I will be reading more from this author. I was hooked from the very very first chapter and he kept me guessing up to the very end. S.L. Chessor, Authors of Poodlums, Boogeymen and Booglers and My Tongue Fell Out.Poodlums, Boogeymen and Booglers: A Poetry Collection
My Tongue Fell Out
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The Midnight Road is the latest novel written by one of America's finest storytellers of dark fiction. As with Piccirilli's other work, the protagonist begins a journey of self discovery, weaving in and out of their own troubled past that somehow connects to a current threat. While the story itself wasn't as gripping as his other book, Headstone City, this one still has the trademarks that Piccirilli fans have come to know and love - flawed, haunted characters caught up in dangerous situations, wrapped in a beautifully detailed world of pain. The only problem I had with the book was the occasional over-analyzing of characters, delving into their psychological motivations throughout the story over and over again. I felt the story wanted to break away with greater speed and energy - and should have - only to be held back sometimes by this technique. That aside, I thoroughly enjoyed this thriller and as always, look forward to the subsequent Piccirilli tale.
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First Sentence: Flynn remembered the night of his death more clearly than any other in his life.
Flynn is an investigator for the Suffolk (NY) County Child Protective Services. Responding to a tip, he drives through a snowstorm to the Shepard's Long Island mansion where he finds a young, mentally disabled, man being kept in a cage. In spite of the mother threatening to shot him, and accidentally shooting her husband, Flynn escapes with the young man and his even younger niece. A car chase by the mother, lands Flynn in the frozen harbor, but revived after being "flash frozen" for 28 minutes. However, his new life ends up a nightmare with someone killing the people around him.
From the opening sentence, I found myself embroiled in Flynn's story. Piccirrilli's writing is lyrical, although a bit overblown. He has an excellent ear for dialogue and knows when to use humour to balance the dark a bit. This is a case where the weather becomes an essential element of the story, along with the talking dog. The characters are eclectic and have violent histories. I would have said this might not be my type of book, but, instead, found it a dark, intriguing, haunted and haunting book I couldn't put down.
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There are two writers extant who can bring me to tears, to real
laughter, and sometimes, to screaming in frustration or anger. One
of them is Tom Piccirilli. When I very first picked up The Midnight
Road, I remembered, at once, the very very first line of the book from a
little taste given at the back of his last novel, The Dead Letters:
"Flynn remembered the night of his death more clearly than any
other in his life." Wow! And, of course I read through that little
taste and decided Ihad to stay alive for another year or so to
finally read the entire book. Which I have. Twice. Wow!
This is the story of Flynn, a forty year old man who carries enough
grief and pain and regret to fuel an entire city. Everyone he loved
died, but the worst death was that of his brother, thirty years
gone. Flynn still drives the Charger in which is brother and
girlfriend met their ends. He is a deeply flawed, deeply empathetic
man who works for Child Protection Services just to try and ease or
prevent yet more suffering. Too many people think that a guy
working for CPS is a potential pederast, and don't look kindly on
him. In trying to save a child and her naked and scarred autistic brother who was locked in a
cage from their nutsoid gun-toting mom, Flynn gets to die. For
twenty-eight minutes. (not a record!) After that, everything goes
downhill. People start falling dead around him, and the cops think
he's involved. Which he is, but not in the way they think. So he
has to find out what's going on.
Good story. Terrific story, in fact, studded with all kinds of
oddities. Like the ghost dog who died along with Flynn and then
came back to haunt him, still wearing plastic booties and a
sweater. Like Flynn's boss, Sierra, whose face is full of
reconstructive plastic. But the best thing, the very best, is the
writing itself and all those terrible emotions it conjures up.
There is something so very natural, so unforced and lacking
contrivance about Piccarilli's writing that you just fall into it.
You know that this is real: this is how people would think and talk
and act. This is how it would go down in the world off the page.
This is not a writer inventing stuff, this is somebody telling you
how it is. It is that simple, and that amazingly good.
And Piccirilli is really funny. Don't know why more people don't
respond to that outrageous humour which is sometimes very subtle,
sometimes very black, and sometimes absolutely silly. It gives a
wonderful balance to all of the pain and misery which his
characters have to endure.
And this is why his writings can make me cry and laugh and steam
with anger. He has that very rare ability to encite real emotional
response in the reader, to render his characters so very alive
that they walk off the page and into your thoughts. You may finish
the book and put it down, but you will never forget it.
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Piccirilli's latest begins with one of the most memorable sentences he has penned yet, and ends on an even deeper note. Blending modern-day noir, suspense, mystery, and a slick, funny ghost-dog side character (that doesn't take away from the serious tone of the story, but actually adds to it), THE MIDNIGHT ROAD may be the perfect book for your subsequent trip to the beach . . . you'll find it very hard to put this one down. But this isn't your typical "beach" read, as the author's trademark prose and fantastic dialogue puts most other thrillers to shame . . . including everything and anything on the bestseller list. Don't miss it.
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