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book! Better than Lee Child or Jonathan Kellerman, a really wellwritten, beautifullypaced, engaging story, I busted through this thing in one evening and didn't feel like I'd taken stupid pills or had to slog through Gumshoea smart, nicely put together product.
Jim Bishop is a hard man, as cold as the wind off the water and tough to the point of brutality, Scott Weiss is Bishop's boss, a worldweary excop who runs a private detective agency out of a concrete tower in the heart of San Francisco.
In this powerfully original series debut by awardwinning and bestselling author Andrew Klavan, Weiss sends Bishop to investigate corruption at a Northern California airportand so sets events in motion that will lead both men on a desperate hunt for a master assassin.


Bishop's assignment is to investigate the airport and report back to Weiss, But Bishop prefers to make up the rules as he goes along, He's willing to beat any man into the ground and draw any woman into his bed in order to get the answers he's after, A pilot himself, he takes to the air to check out the illegal flights of a thug names Chris Wannamaker, Then he coolly seduces Wannamaker's lonely wife in order to find out more,

Back in the city, as Weiss struggles to rein Bishop in, he begins a connected investigation of his own, A death in a mansion in Presidio Heights, a seemingly random murder South of Market, an apparent suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge, all seem to bear the mark of Weiss' old nemesis, an expert gunforhire who goes by the name of the Shadowman.
It's a trail of blood, and each step of it seems to bring Weiss closer to Julie Wyant, a mysterious beauty who captures the imagination of every man she meets.


Soon Bishop has found his way into the center of a massive criminal conspiracy, a plan set to climax with an act of audacious violence and a murder that would be impossible for any killer but one.
And with his operative's wife in danger, Weiss begins a race against time to outsmart the murderer who stalks his nightmares and to rescue the woman who haunts his dream.

If you like your tough guys really tough, your femme fatale and your action explosivewelcome to Dynamite Road,
Good read Андрю Клейвън не се казва "Клаван", както го превеждат у нас и всъщност е доста забавен и интересен консервативен политически коментатор в ютюб, но като автор на книги, каквато всъщност е основната му професия, успява да се класира само като писател на второразредни трилърчета, които не блестят с нищо. Даже и не лъщят малко. Terrible writing, clunky and childish, Plus the writer is a misogynist, antifeminist and it comes across quite strongly in how he writes about women,
Red flags guys, avoid this novelists books, This writer is pretty frustrating for me, guys, Thats the first thing I should say, The second is that however lukewarm I may sound in the rest of my review, just know that I fully intend to read at least one other Weiss and Bish story.
Frankly, with titles like Werewolf Cop, its hard for me to imagine myself not to keep giving this guy chances even if Im increasingly sure were not going to find common ground.


Note that while Im talking more specifically about Klavan as a writer in this review, it absolutely applies to Dynamite Road, which I just finished.
DR most significantly had the effect of frustrating along with other work of Klavans that Ive already read,

I really like Klavans instincts for genre and the seeming lack of pretension writing “balls out” genre fare, But the same problems keep popping up in his writing over and over again to the point where Im giving up hope that theyre not just shortcomings of a writer learning his craft.
If theyre intentional choices, I just dont know what the guys thinking,

For instance, Klavan has a habit of dwelling on the obvious and the absurd, even drawing those moments out to the point of wondering if its meant as test of patience for the reader, haha.
The conceit to this novel is that one of the characters is telling us what happens, Im unclear if thats meant to apply to the whole novel or if its just the parts the character is present for, Anyway, either Klavan or Klavan as the character affects the language to this absurdly overwrought degree where were liable to get “x is like a x” sometimes twice in one sentence.
This isnt from the book, but I mean something like, “Her kiss was like a soft pillow and when she pulled her face back to look at me her eyes swam like that guy who kept winning medals in the Olympics a while back.
” Not that, but you know, Just way too much. Maybe Klavan thinks hard nose writing is supposed to have as much lug headed poetry in his prose as possible

There is a scene where a character is about to be executed.
Its obvious at some point the character wont be executed at all because, hell, there was too much work setting him up to wreck the lead characters world to chalk him up to a blind alley which I would have respected and loved.
But Klavan goes on FOREVER playing on this non existent tension, If the character were interesting and likeable, I might have liked to spend that time with him, He was neither. Nothing interesting was happening. It was a five second bridge scene I mean a scene bridging two more relevant scenes together, but not in Klavans hands, He needs an editor.

The moral point of view in this books is a little weird, too, Look, its obvious Klavan must be a very religious guy, More power to him. I dont care. EXCEPT it keeps sorta coming up in the way he makes his characters engage the world, Weiss likes sex workers, so his physical ugliness is continually brought up, Bishop is an Adonis and a bad boy, so women fall for him against their will and throw away their marriages for him, Again this might just be Klavan writing a “hard nose detective story,” but the morality in these books is laughable, The narrator claims to not be a Catholic or otherwise religious, I guess, He finds a priest having a homosexual affair, but were meant to think the narrator does the right thing leaving an innocent man in jail innocent of the crime, at least in refusing to let the priest reap the consequences of his actions.
The priest gave false testimony as well as breaking his vows, . . the guy shouldnt be left to be anyone's moral arbiter,

Stuff like that kept popping up in Werewolf Cop, too,

I did not enjoy it, It started with so much filth that I didn't care what happened, I got/of the way in and put it down for good, Which is unfortunate, because I loved thebooks I've read that he wrote for youth, This is a solid character driven detective novel, A lot of the story revolves around Jim Bishop, a man's man, who women cant help but falling for, He is not a sympathetic character by any means, but his no bullshit attitude really drive his part of the plot, Weiss, a sad man but a good guy is much more interesting and nuanced, Finally, our narrator is a naive but good detective working as an intern of sorts int heir detective agency,

Andrew Klavan writes well and that's really what carries the story, I was very interested in allplot lines which end up tying in together at eventually,

Fans of detective driven stories, crime novels involving undercover agents and readers that apprieace a well conceived and meticulously carried out plan no mater how incredulous by the bad guy, will enjoy this one.
Listened to the audiobook and maybe that is why I had a hard time telling the characters apart, They seemed one dimensional and unlikeable to me, Andrew Klavan's book Dynamite Road is a good read, Sthe story is good and strong, as well as intriguing,
I enjoyed the book as will most mystery readers,

Enjoy

J, Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'" Read in, Powerfully original thriller. Not sure I wanted to complete this novel after the first chapter, I'm glad I stayed with it, This was a nice thriller, Descriptions of things and situations were a bit datedwords used in old novels but was easy to follow, I finished this indays so obviously I enjoyed it, From ISawLightningFall. com

THREEANDAHALF STARS

Some combinations are simply meant to be, Consider milk chocolate and peanut butter, how that creamy sweetness meets with savory saltiness in just such a way that you want to gobble copious amounts until a cardial infarction looms.
Others obviously aren't. My wife tells a story of how, during her starving student days, a friend spiked her pasta marinara sauce with curry powder when her back was turned.
A few fusions, though, sit uneasily in no man's land, neither transcendently harmonious nor gratingly wrong, Such is the case with Andrew Klavan's blending of hardboiled, thriller and romanticism in Dynamite Road,

Jim Bishop and Scott Weiss couldn't be more different, Muscled, mean and amoral, Bishop isn't above breaking skulls or casually bedding other men's wives to get what he wants, Weiss is a former cop, a soft, shaggy hulk of a man with such an exalted view of the female sex that he can never bring himself to build even the beginnings of a relationship, much less move it towards marriage.
So it's amazing that they could stand to be in the same room together, much less form a successful working relationship, But somehow they have, and the privateeye firm of Weiss Investigations does good business, This latest job, though, may prove too dangerous for even the both of them, What begins as an inquiry into smalltown racketeering soon spirals into a search for a transcendentally beautiful prostitute named Julie Wyant and the murderer known only as Shadowman who hunts her.
Either would prove challenging to find under normal circumstances, but these are anything but, Wyant, you see, is supposed to be dead, and Shadowman, well, no one is really sure if he even exists,

No doubt about it, Klavan knows the crime novel cold, He owns the tropes and never fails deal them out in an entertaining fashion, "Slow burn" describes Wise and Bishop's adventures to a T, everything smoldering along at an increasing temperature until some crucial bit of kindling catches and it all explodes into flame.
It makes sense, then, in telling such a story to join toughguy mystery with breakneck thriller, What seems a little odd is the unabashed romanticism infusing the proceedings, There are kisses stolen at gunpoint and lots of mooning over the comehither glances from an angelic whore, We even learn that Shadowman himself is motivated by, . . But, wait, let's not ruin it, Suffice it to say that while Dynamite Road is ultimately a tasty read, some parts possess a strange savor, The concept of the book was brilliant, the vulgarity was not, I got tired of being assaulted, This is the first of the Weiss/Bishop series,

I read this in two days, Good action, only occassionally being James Bondish, Great dialogue and descriptions leads to very good character development, Can only think of one innocent who met a violent death that's low for Klavan,

I think you need to read these in order because Weiss and Bishop are obviously in the series, but I think there will be other recurring characters, and perhaps even an extended story line or theme.


On to "Shotgun Alley" RATING:,Small town corruption, drug smuggling and a terrifying serial killer, Hardboiled fans, with a nod to pulp fiction will enjoy the tough talking antiheroes, My first Klavan novel . not my last. Excellent. Andrew Klavan is a master of the modern detective genre, Great characters and an edge of your seat plot, My first book by the author
though an interesting read but many reservations, Ben Fry was a stalker, a psychotic killer, His target was a young woman named Penny Morgan who worked at an art gallery, He used this crime to get sent to prison, Meanwhile, Jim Bishop, an operative of Scott Weisss detective agency, rode his Harley into Driscol, California, introducing himself to Ray Gramley as his new pilot.
Gramleys Director of Operations/Dispatcher, Kathleen Wanamaker was introduced to Bishop, She had a small house for rent next to her house, which Bishop accepted, Chris Wanamaker, Rays chief pilot flew into the airfield, He would be checking out Bishops pilot credentials, Later that evening, Bishop witnessed Chris and Kathleen arguing next door, Bishop checked in with his boss Weiss “Im here”, Meanwhile, Weiss had another client in his office, Walley Spender, Spender wanted Weiss to protect him from the brother of a woman he raped in Mexico, Northwilderness SHU is a maximum security prison for the worst of the worst in Northern California, Ben Fry was sent there, All these odd situations are connected according to Weisss cop mentality, Who was the Shadowman and why was everyone afraid of him DYNAMITE ROAD Private Investigators VG
Andrew Klavanst in series
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The San Francisco detective agency of Weiss Associates sends operative, pilot and ladys man Jim Bishop to

investigate for what the planes of a small Northern California airport are being used.
Meanwhile the agencys owner, Scott Weiss, is investigating several deaths that seem to tie to a beautiful, but missing, woman,
Its hard to say what made me like this as much as I did, While the suspense is good, its the crisp writing and the very intriguing characters that really drew me in and kept me going, Id not read Klavan before, but I can guarantee Ill be reading him again,
! Chilling, suspenseful and actionpacked,
I've read quite a bit of Andrew Klavan, but not this series, This is the debut. I will seek out the other two!

Scott Weiss owns a PI agency in San Francisco, He has sent his operative, Jim Bishop, as an undercover pilot to a airpark in northern California,
One of the two partners of the airpark has hired the Agency to investigate his coowner, He thinks the man is up to something shady with the planes,
Believe me he is.
As the investigation continues, the dots start connecting to an old case from Weiss' cop days,
It concerns the Shadowman, a serial killer and one of the most most monstrous characters I've ever read,
A page turning thriller that I burned through,
The ending is as bonechilling as it gets!,