Edge of the City

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Summary: Another Good Mahoney
Review: As a fan of the story-line, I found this to be an entertaining read. The McKenna story is always a good one. I found the forefront when the author describes how he uses certain characters to be interesting. Mr. Mahoney uses some real life in his work. Always informative stuff. Kinda hard to believe plot, but none the less an exciting book. The dealings with alcoholism, I find to be accurate. Although, make no mistake about it, a majority need the help of others to maintain long-term sobriety. McKenna is a rare breed of drunk who doesn't need help(AA or the like) to stay clean. His inside the head thoughts as the author puts them in print make for some of the best stuff in the book.I look forward to the next book, having read all of the good books by Mr. Mahoney.

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Summary: Book grabs you and Holds on!
Review: Former detective Dan Mahoney did what few can do, he became a writer and a good one too. He developes likabel characters and weaves them into a procedural drama that really flies. Plot twists keep thsi action packed book moving right along. Mahoneys tale of cop life was very authantic and true to life. I myself am a former FBI agent and found the procedural drama to be very intense as well as authantic due to the politics of the police department.

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Summary: Book grabs you and Holds on!
Review: I highly recommend this great Police Procedural.

Brian McKenna at his best. He is an humble, highly intelligent man, who loves his wife. He is definitely not a sexist male. I think that one thing I like about Dan Mahoney's Brian McKenna Books are that female personalities are fully developed and the women are shown as intelligent. His male and female friends and acquaintances in this book are so interesting that you come to care for each of them, even the criminals.

I follow Brian and his associates from book to book, and it is like losing someone I know when someone dies - usually violently.

The book starts with Brian in Florida. I was enjoying learning about his life in Florida, when he had to return to New York. It did not take me long to be glad he returned.

This is a QUICK moving story that is hard to put down.

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Summary: More good stuff
Review: This second of Dan Mahoney's series is as compellingly readable as the first, continuing former cop Brian McKenna's battle against the Peruvian terrorist group Sendero. All McKenna's Manhattan cop buddies are back in play. And this time, the reader gets to "watch" as the city is held hostage to the terrorists, with bridges blown up, Staten Island ferries commandeered by the bad guys, and general havoc wreaked on the city. McKenna's wife, Angelita, is a complete pain in the butt and I'm anxious to see if the marriage lasts in the subsequent books. (I hope not; she's beyond unlovable--while McKenna is a great hero figure.) Happily, there are several more in the series waiting for me to read. Highly recommended.

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Summary: A Master of exciting action!
Review: With each of Mahoney's books, I've found him to be the master of today's modern police stories,filled with international intrigue and complex characters who keep you engrossed with each turn of the page.Edge of the City is a winner that grips your interest from start to the amazing finish. Brian McKenna is now one of my favorite continuing detective heroes!