Hard Knocks, Howie Carr
Hard Knocks, Howie Carr
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Hard Knocks

Author: Howie Carr

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2012

Synopsis

Following the lead of Boston crime-thriller writers like Dennis Lehane and Chuck Hogan, New York Times bestselling author and radio sensation, Howie Carr, delivers a hard-hitting tale of survival, betrayal, deceit, and murder… in other words, a fictional odyssey through the last thirty years of crime in Boston. Jack Reilly, a dodgy ex-Boston cop, is trying to make ends meet as a private investigator. When a client is killed, execution style, Reilly finds himself in a whole world of pain. Someone wants him dead—but why? To find out, Reilly must weed through thirty years of duplicity, corruption, and killing… a web of politicians dirtier than mobsters and criminals nobler than senators. He needs to uncover the dangerous truth behind the bribery, blood, and backdoor deals that define the highest levels of both organized crime and State House politics—before it's too late.

About Howie Carr

Howie Carr is an award-winning front-page columnist for the Boston Herald and the host of The Howie Carr Show, a popular New England drive-time talk radio program. Known for his scathing exposés of local politicians, he is regularly featured on NBC’s Today, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and CNN. In 1985 he won a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize. He has been nominated for an Emmy. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

About Peter Berkrot

Peter Berkrot, a forty-year veteran of stage and screen, has voiced over 450 audiobook titles, winning Earphones Awards, a 2012 Audie Award nomination, and a 2016 Audie Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on January 20, 2016

3.5 stars. This was a lot of fun, definitely not PC, & twisty as hell. There's no mystery about the murder except who might be next & why which is plenty. Our hero has some very flexible morals & a checkered history which make for quite a tour through Boston politics. I suppose that's the right term......more

Goodreads review by Dan on March 02, 2012

Jack Reilly; ex-cop turned investigator (PI doesn’t seem to exist in this day) has a brother in jail and a client who ultimately gets killed. And now someone is gunning after him. What he finds is a bunch of corrupt politicians and cops. (Gee, that’s new). But Howie Carr writes about Boston with suc......more

Goodreads review by Tomasz on July 24, 2024

(Finding out the author went from this to promoting DJT was hardly surprising, I'd say). So - there's this guy who rags on minorities and gays and illegal aliens and gun control and whatever else GOP deems carpet-bombing-worthy, who's so dumb he regularly uses his face to stop other people's fists,......more

Goodreads review by Robert on October 28, 2024

A very good read as author Carr weaves an intriguing story that moves along well and presents characters who are real in this version of mobsters, dirty cops and corrupt politicians. The story line is of ex-cop and mayoral fixer, Jack Reilly, working for a rival politician to a state Speaker of the......more

Goodreads review by M.E. on December 09, 2023

An enjoyable read about an ex-cop on disability, now a down-and-out private detective, who gets client referrals from his brother in prison. His most recent referral is murdered after their first meeting at a local bar, wherein the client's instructions are decidedly less than clear. Given that the......more

Quotes

“Colorfully corrupt characters and hard-charging storytelling.” Publishers Weekly

“Peter Berkrot does very well articulating a cynical but honorable (in his own way) private eye. He voices the characters as they’re presented, one by one: tired, tough, profane, arrogant, naïve, ambitious.” AudioFile

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