deadcoil's Full Review: Michael Connelly - The Poet
Jack McEvoy- Basic Denver murder reporter, friends with the cops, one of which is his happy-go-lucky twin brother, Sean.
The book starts when Jack gets the news that Sean is dead. Killed by his own hand, found in his own car, gun on the seat next to him, and the final message of "Out of space. Out of time." scrawled on the windshield.
Thus begins a saga of psychosis, murder, and child pornography. Jack decides that there are a few things that don't add up, including the fact that, just before his own demise, Sean was involved in a murder case that seemed to be killing his spirit. During his investigations, Jack discovers another story of a policeman who seemingly killed himself, miles away in Chicago, leaving only a strange quote on a notepad, from Edgar A. Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace". On a whim, Jack runs his brother's final message through the computers, and finds the words in another Poe work, "The Fall of the House of Usher".
After that, the book takes off like a goosed cobra. Jack finds an ally in one of the internal workers at the Law Enforcement Foundation, an ex-murder reporter. Together, they peice together a list that shows a string of suspicious cop suicides spanning the nation, all of whom left a final message quoted from Poe's work. Jack gets backstabbed repeatedly in this novel, but he's unsure of whose hilt is protruding from his back at times. The action gets harder near the last sixty pages of the novel, and the ending will keep you up until the wee hours.
I loved this one. Connelly writes with visceral descriptions, putting the reader right inside the main character's skull. It's an art that only half of the "Good" writers actually know how to do. Pick it up before getting on a bus, or take a day off to sit back and enjoy it. Either way, you'll feel like you're watching a Coppola film in your head, complete with adrenaline, mystery, and paranoia.
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