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Detective Francis DeSales, head of the Brooklyn Violence Task Force, investigates a shooting at a political rally for New York's first Black mayoral candidate, a search that takes him from one end of Brooklyn to another in pursuit of a sociopathic weapons enthusiast
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Detective Francis DeSales of the Brooklyn, N.Y., Violence Task Force is destined for an explosive encounter with a killer in Boyle's ( Only the Dead Know Brooklyn ) compelling new police procedural. DeSales lives in fast-lane Manhattan with ambitious, WASPy TV news reporter Megan Moore and, due to the racial war raging in his native Brooklyn,vehemently denies his Italian heritage. When what seems to be an assassination attempt on the black mayoral candidate takes the life of the campaign manager, a 1960s liberal, DeSales is called to the case. A videotaped montage of clips from '60s events and pornographic flicks sent to the mayoral candidate's house serves as a clue, and a strange, alienated young man who calls himself Bono Hendrix becomes the main suspect. Bono, whose brain is scrambled by steroids and by the '60s cliches his ex-hippie father taught him, soon makes a grisly discovery in the tenement room that houses his weapons arsenal and his only friend, a dying gay black man. Completely unbalanced, he heads for what will be a fateful meeting with DeSales. Despite many red herrings and heavy-handed prose, this is a fast-paced, colorful and atmospheric novel, lent immediacy by its references to actual events.
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The longest day ever for Brooklyn Violence Task Force head Francis DeSales (Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, Post-Mortem Effects) begins with the news that black mayoral hopeful Harrison Dillard's campaign manager, Arthur Kaputz, is shot out of his motorcade. That night, Frank will follow a tip from an old girlfriend who's got a line on the killer, a body-builder/terrorist drugged on Sixties fantasies of political violence--but not before his live-in, newscaster Megan Moore, and guilt-ridden prof Ben Asterisky of the Institute for Urban Studies follow separate trails (a sex-violence-politics videotape and a class list from 20 years ago) to the same Semtex-streaked building for an explosive finale. As powerfully baroque as ever, although Boyle's crazy killer doesn't seem much crazier than his saner neighbors. Don't expect to see copies at the Brooklyn Tourist Office. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0670830194
- ISBN 13 9780670830190
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