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A review by jmatkinson1
Hi Five by Joe Ide
5.0
Isaiah Quintabe, IQ, is an unlicensed but successful private investigator who has had run-ins with just about every gang in LA. When he received a call from Angus Byrne he is reluctant to meet but Angus threatens his girlfriend and so has Isaiah. His right-hand man has been killed the police have homed in on his daughter Christiana but there is a catch, Christiana has multiple personality disorder and there are five different witnesses in one body. Add into the mix the return of Isaiah's true love, a romance between a rough but kind man and a tough, embittered woman and a valuable gun who possession if fought over by all the major crews and IQ is in a bind he may not get out of.
Ide claims to be a huge fan of Conan Doyle and it can be seen in the plotting of his novels. The setting is rough and tough LA with the gang-related issues to the fore, here ultra-right wing Neo-Nazis come up against a Cambodian crew, the plots are violent with lots of shootings. Yet there is also a cast of well-drawn characters, TK is so sympathetically handled and Dodson's tug between respectable family man and the excitement of life on the edge is really believeable. Add into that the cerebral nature of the way Isaiah thinks through his moves and this is a fantastic modern take on an ages old genre.
Ide claims to be a huge fan of Conan Doyle and it can be seen in the plotting of his novels. The setting is rough and tough LA with the gang-related issues to the fore, here ultra-right wing Neo-Nazis come up against a Cambodian crew, the plots are violent with lots of shootings. Yet there is also a cast of well-drawn characters, TK is so sympathetically handled and Dodson's tug between respectable family man and the excitement of life on the edge is really believeable. Add into that the cerebral nature of the way Isaiah thinks through his moves and this is a fantastic modern take on an ages old genre.