The Last Straw by
Ed Duncan
(I received a free copy of this book from the author and publicist in exchange for an honest review.)
When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss with no apparent motive. A black lawyer and a white enforcer with an unlikely history forge an uneasy alliance to protect the girl from a hit man with an agenda of his own.
After they find out that the crime boss is the father of the black teenage carjacker, Paul Elliott - lawyer and close friend of the witness’s family - begins counseling them.
As the long-simmering feud between Rico and John D'Angelo reaches boiling point, bodies start to pile up in rapid succession... and old scores will be settled.
One of the things i liked about Pigeon Blood Red and this book is how the author brings together various unrelated characters with the plotline. The story starts off having two different plotlines until you realize they were moving towards each other from the beginning. It was nice to see the familiar characters like Rico and Paul and then there are new characters like Sandra who do a great job in driving the story forward.
I really liked how there are these amazing plot twists and the authors throws them at you all of a sudden like BAM and you're flipping back the pages to see Okay now how did that happen??
Every character is unique. Rico is one of the best anti-heroes ever written. The author doesn't downplay his dark side but the author doesn't hide his good side either; the one where he takes care of his people and wants to protect an innocent man. Paul Elliott lives in a world apart from Rico's and although they crossed paths in the previous book, Paul is in no hurry to visit Rico's part of the world; the one with the guns and hit-men. When Paul is unwittingly pulled back into this world as he tries to protect Sandra, him and Rico meet again.The awkward friendship growing between the two men was interesting to read about.
It was also interesting to see more of how Paul and Evelyn are working with their relationship and how Rico and Jean interact in their relationship. I always like it when stories are driven by the characters and their relationships with other characters.
Ed Duncan has written a thrilling mystery with characters the reader would grow to love. You needn't have read book one to understand this story but it definitely would give you a better understanding of the characters.
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