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The follow-up to Reuland's critically acclaimed debut novel Hollowpoint. "Rob Reuland writes beautifully-about sadness and cities and injured dreams. First with Hollowpoint and now with Semiautomatic, he has renewed my faith in the health and future of the urban crime novel." -Dennis Lehane "Semiautomatic is notable not for violence but for subtle characterizations, moral ambiguities and exceptional writing. Reuland has been, like Gio, a prosecutor in Brooklyn. Many lawyers publish novels these days, and most express themselves with clarity. But not many lawyers (or non-lawyers, for that matter) produce fiction that is fresh, surprising and lyrical, as Reuland does. Some readers may find Semiautomatic too inward for their tastes, but in stylistic terms it's the best-written legal thriller I've ever read, hands down." -Washington Post Reuland's elegant, hard-edged, and oftentimes funny writing has inspired one critic to name him the "bastard child of Raymond Chandler and Ernest Hemingway." With Semiautomatic, Reuland delivers another fist-in-the-gut portrait of criminal justice inside the courtroom and on the darkened street corners of Brooklyn. But more than anything Reuland captures lives on the edge, men and women working and dying in a very real world that most of us never see, although it exists right under our noses. Reuland shows us that world in searing detail without flinching, although we may want to.
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"Rob Reuland writes beautifully--about sadness and cities and injured dreams. First with Hollowpoint and now with Semiautomatic, he has renewed my faith in the health and future of the urban crime novel." -Dennis Lehane
"Semiautomatic is a novel-lover's treat. It is one of those very rare books that manages to be smart, compelling, witty and important all at once. Rob Reuland skips the by-the-numbers nonsense of the generic legal thrillers and instead offers a fully-detailed world of vivid characters and a trouble court system, and he reminds us why we find stories about the law so fascinating." -David Liss, author of The Coffee Trader and A Conspiracy of Paper
"Semiautomatic shines with fantastic imagery, sharp dialogue, and sparkling detail. An engrossing, morally complex winner from Robert Reuland, one of crime fiction's most gifted young writers." -George Pelecanos
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"Semiautomatic is a novel-lover's treat. It is one of those very rare books that manages to be smart, compelling, witty and important all at once. Rob Reuland skips the by-the-numbers nonsense of the generic legal thrillers and instead offers a fully-detailed world of vivid characters and a trouble court system, and he reminds us why we find stories about the law so fascinating." -David Liss, author of The Coffee Trader and A Conspiracy of Paper
"Semiautomatic shines with fantastic imagery, sharp dialogue, and sparkling detail. An engrossing, morally complex winner from Robert Reuland, one of crime fiction's most gifted young writers." -George Pelecanos
Rob Reuland practised law on Wall Street for many years before joining the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, where he was assigned to the Homicide Bureau. He spent his youth in Iowa before attending Cambridge University and the Vanderbilt Law School. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two young children and writes full-time.
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- PublisherCreateSpace
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 146119816X
- ISBN 13 9781461198161
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages232
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