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3.0
Would you murder someone to save the life of a member of your family? What if the murder you had to commit to save your family member meant the death of a particularly evil drug lord kind of person. Would you do it? Could you do it?
Lew Croaker used to be a New York-based cop until the job just got the better of him. He gave up police work in favor of being a south Florida fisherman who caught his share and shared his boat and navigational talent with friends who wanted to do a little fishing, too. He even figured he'd make a living that way.
Lew and his younger sister, Matty, haven’t spoken in years. She married a slime ball who is already dead as the book opens, and Lew simply couldn’t be around either of them. He missed the delightful little girl who was the product of that marriage, and he thought of Rachel often over the years, wondering where and how she was.
It is while living his laid-back life that Lew learns that his niece is hospitalized and is about to die. He travels to the hospital only to find that, if Rachel doesn’t get a kidney within four days, she will die. Sadly, Rachel had gotten caught up in the drug culture and the cocaine and other substances she had used had destroyed her one good kidney; the other hadn’t functioned from birth.
This is a compelling book about one man’s efforts to save a teenage girl and damn himself by committing a murder.
There is evil in this book in the form of a set of twins who use the kind of South American Latin woo-woo black magic to work spells on people—spells that seem to be more efficacious than you might initially think possible.
As Lew winds and grinds his way deeper into the darkness through which he must pass if the girl is to live, he uncovers twisted deceptions whose tentacles extend into the halls of government.
I found the weird south-of-the-border voodoo stuff largely off-putting. I understand that it had to be there to electrically charge the book, but I couldn’t suspend disbelief enough to get caught up in it the way the author probably would have wanted me to. That said, I was spellbound by Lew Croaker’s dilemma. Do you let a young girl whom you love die? Or do you destroy your own soul in a very real way by committing a murder? And if you agree to commit the murder, will there be others who will betray you—people whom you believed were your friends?
I spent an entire Sunday engrossed in this, begrudging every second I had to put it down to experience normal life.
Lew Croaker used to be a New York-based cop until the job just got the better of him. He gave up police work in favor of being a south Florida fisherman who caught his share and shared his boat and navigational talent with friends who wanted to do a little fishing, too. He even figured he'd make a living that way.
Lew and his younger sister, Matty, haven’t spoken in years. She married a slime ball who is already dead as the book opens, and Lew simply couldn’t be around either of them. He missed the delightful little girl who was the product of that marriage, and he thought of Rachel often over the years, wondering where and how she was.
It is while living his laid-back life that Lew learns that his niece is hospitalized and is about to die. He travels to the hospital only to find that, if Rachel doesn’t get a kidney within four days, she will die. Sadly, Rachel had gotten caught up in the drug culture and the cocaine and other substances she had used had destroyed her one good kidney; the other hadn’t functioned from birth.
This is a compelling book about one man’s efforts to save a teenage girl and damn himself by committing a murder.
There is evil in this book in the form of a set of twins who use the kind of South American Latin woo-woo black magic to work spells on people—spells that seem to be more efficacious than you might initially think possible.
As Lew winds and grinds his way deeper into the darkness through which he must pass if the girl is to live, he uncovers twisted deceptions whose tentacles extend into the halls of government.
I found the weird south-of-the-border voodoo stuff largely off-putting. I understand that it had to be there to electrically charge the book, but I couldn’t suspend disbelief enough to get caught up in it the way the author probably would have wanted me to. That said, I was spellbound by Lew Croaker’s dilemma. Do you let a young girl whom you love die? Or do you destroy your own soul in a very real way by committing a murder? And if you agree to commit the murder, will there be others who will betray you—people whom you believed were your friends?
I spent an entire Sunday engrossed in this, begrudging every second I had to put it down to experience normal life.
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