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A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston
4.0
This is a really good book. It's exciting, it's moving, it kind of feels real even though it's kind of ridiculous. It's also a terrific ending to this series.
A Dangerous Man is the final book in the Hank Thompson trilogy. The first two books - Caught Stealing and Six Bad Things - are also really, really good. This one picks up a bit after Six Bad Things leaves off. Hank (who everyone is calling Henry now) is working for David Dolokhov as a "dangerous man" - basically, he beats up/kills people that David wants him to. Everything is going pretty crappy for Henry: he's wracked with guilt over what he's done and he's pretty drug-dependent. He's also started screwing up a lot of David's assignment. So David gives him an easy one: help protect and escort an incredibly talented but gambling obsessed baseball phenom. In New York. Like in the other books, everything gets crazy. Henry is on the run for his life again, and he tries to make things right.
It's all very addictive. I read this book super quickly because I just didn't want to put it down. It doesn't have quite the same height of suspense as the previous iterations, but it still has most of the magic: the grittiness, the excitement, and the little bit of heart. I'd highly recommend this series: just don't read it out of order.
A Dangerous Man is the final book in the Hank Thompson trilogy. The first two books - Caught Stealing and Six Bad Things - are also really, really good. This one picks up a bit after Six Bad Things leaves off. Hank (who everyone is calling Henry now) is working for David Dolokhov as a "dangerous man" - basically, he beats up/kills people that David wants him to. Everything is going pretty crappy for Henry: he's wracked with guilt over what he's done and he's pretty drug-dependent. He's also started screwing up a lot of David's assignment. So David gives him an easy one: help protect and escort an incredibly talented but gambling obsessed baseball phenom. In New York. Like in the other books, everything gets crazy. Henry is on the run for his life again, and he tries to make things right.
It's all very addictive. I read this book super quickly because I just didn't want to put it down. It doesn't have quite the same height of suspense as the previous iterations, but it still has most of the magic: the grittiness, the excitement, and the little bit of heart. I'd highly recommend this series: just don't read it out of order.