Black Tide (Lewis Cole series Book 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00HC16D7O |
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| Number of Pages | : | 163 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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His short stories have twice won him the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America and have also earned him three Edgar Award nominations. Brendan DuBois is the award-winning author of sixteen novels and more than 120 short stories. including Fatal Harbor, Blood Foam, and Storm Cell, which are all
otherwise good read. Book as loaded with both spelling and grammar errors. otherwise good read.. A Customer said An impressive "An impressive 2nd effort from a fairly new author." according to A Customer. Brendan DuBois has obviously learned much from his previous book, Dead Sand.Black Tide picks up a few months after the conclusion of Dead Sand, andpulls the reader almost instantly into the plotline. Unlike its predecessor, Black Tide does not dwell on seacoast details for pages on end. DuBois learns to get past the filler and primarily utilize events and character to fill the page, rather than physical details of the landscape. DuBois' sense of character is refreshing for the mystery novel genre; he has created a both a protagonist and secondary characters that contain just about the right amount of tou. nd effort from a fairly new author.. Brendan DuBois has obviously learned much from his previous book, Dead Sand.Black Tide picks up a few months after the conclusion of Dead Sand, andpulls the reader almost instantly into the plotline. Unlike its predecessor, Black Tide does not dwell on seacoast details for pages on end. DuBois learns to get past the filler and primarily utilize events and character to fill the page, rather than physical details of the landscape. DuBois' sense of character is refreshing for the mystery novel genre; he has created a both a protagonist and secondary characters that contain just about the right amount of tou. Lynn Harnett said Plenty of brains and brawn. DuBois' second Lewis Cole mystery opens with Cole's discovery of a headless, handless corpse in the cold surf off his New Hampshire beach home. Cole, a former Department of Defense spook, pensioned off with his secrets and a generous income funnelled through his job as a magazine columnist, puts the corpse out of his mind, intent on finding the deeply hidden owner of an oil tanker that ruptured, fouling his beloved coast with its cargo.A wizard with a computer and a telephone line, Cole tracks the protected owner but has no way to get at him. Plotting his next step, he's distracted by a friend, Felix, a
Visit his website at BrendanDuBois.. BLACK TIDE will appeal to a wide range of mystery fans." -- Booklist"DuBois paints a vivid picture of Cole's life in controlled, seductive prose." -- Publisher's Weekly"With plenty of rugged action and quick spook-type thinking, DuBois has constructed an absorbing tale of greed and utter ruthlessness." -- York County Coast StarABOUT THE AUTHORBrendan DuBois of Exeter, New Hampshire, is the award-winning author of 130 short stories and sixteen novels including his latest, “Fatal Harbor,” part of the Lewis Cole mystery series (Pegasus Books) which will be published in May 2014. His stories have twice won him the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and have also earned him three Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of America. He is also a “Jeopardy!” gameshow champion. Add in a puzzle involving thre
He also agrees to help a lesbian cop pal who has a new guy on the force interested in her and to advise, for a fee, his neighbor Felix, a onetime criminal who knows the whereabouts of three famous purloined paintings. From Publishers Weekly Sitting on the deck of his New Hampshire beach house with a couple of Molsons, retired agency man and occasional journalist Lewis Cole is bemoaning the recently oil-soaked coastline when he sees a corpse drift in. Lewis, who is recovering from an operation to remove a benign but puzzling tumor, a result of his participation in a Department of Defense experiment in Nevada (recounted in Dead Sand), is trying to trace the ownership of the tank