Iron River (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Parker, T. Jefferson

3.64

1,332 ratings by Goodreads

9781410423795: Iron River (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410423794 ISBN 13: 9781410423795

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2010

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"On a dusty highway just north of the United States/Mexico border, a man named Mike Finnegan is struck by a fast-moving vehicle and flung into the desert. Miraculously, he survives and winds up in a hospital in the tiny border town of Buenavista, seemingly in full possession of his faculties including the eerie ability to understand events happening well outside the view from his hospital bed. Charlie Hood joins a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms task force patrolling the "iron river," where illegal guns flow from United States dealers to the Mexican drug business. Hood is part of a stakeout team when a federal officer's bullet kills an innocent boy. The boy happens to be the son of Benjamin Armenta, head of the Gulf Cartel and one of the most violent men in the world. Armenta's thirst for vengeance even in routine business matters is well known. His hired killers are credited with many of the murders and beheadings of the fifteen thousand people who have died in the cartel wars along the border in recent years. Hood and ATF brace themselves for brute vengeance. As this unthinkable violence leaks from Mexico into the United States, and as Finnegan's predictive powers become even stranger and stronger, Charlie Hood works to understand the mysterious forces fighting for control of this tiny border town, forces that may have the power to slow the iron river and to save the ATF men he has come to think of as his brothers"-- Book jacket.

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Review:

"A masterpiece of postmodern noir. Here is a brilliant craftsman and storyteller at the height of his powers." -Providence Journal
"Parker's concise prose, at once low-key and lyrical, plays almost like cowboy poetry." -Los Angeles Times
"Parker glides from novel to novel, usually taking us in unexpected new directions. If you're interested in the best of today's crime fiction, he's someone you should read." -The Washington Post
"Ambitious, daring...brilliant." --The Associated Press
"T. Jefferson Parker has burgled the crumbling palace of Edgar Allan Poe for inspiration." --The Wall Street Journal
"Parker, the winner of three Edgar awards for crime fiction, again delivers a tale that is not only well-plotted and suspenseful, but subtle, surprising and endearingly perverse." --Washington Post
"T. Jefferson Parker has carved out a niche for himself as the Hemingway of thriller writers...His writing is a wonder to behold." --Providence Sunday Journal
"A spectacular close a crime series that obliterated the boundaries of the genre." --BookReporter
"Parker could well be the best crime writer working out of Southern Caifornia." --Chicago Tribune
"The Charlie Hood novels are nothing less than addictive." --Tucson Citizen
"The most groundbreaking crime series in decades." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"This is gripping literary entertainment with a point." --Los Angeles Times
"Some of the finest writing you'll ever read." --Chicago Sun-Times

About the Author:

T. Jefferson Parker is the author of numerous novels and short stories, the winner of three Edgar Awards, and the recipient of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mysteries. Before becoming a full-time novelist, he was an award-winning reporter. He lives in Fallbrook, California.

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