Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Citizen Sidel
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Jerome Charyn
Class/Genre: Mystery Police Procedural Political Intrigue
Series: Isaac Sidel # 10
Mysterious, Jan 1999, $23.00, 224 pp.
New York City's Madison Square Garden is hosting the Democratic Party's National Convention. J. Michael Storm, who ended the worst strike in the history of baseball, is going to be nominated as the party's presidential candidate. The city's mayor, Isaac Sidel, has been selected as Storm's running mate in order to counterbalance the scandals of the top half of the ticket.
While the world focuses on J. Michael, Isaac has a city to run and a murder to investigate. A father has apparently killed his son. Both were city cops. Isaac investigates and soon finds himself confronting a precinct captain, backed by powerful friends, who delivers murder upon demand. As he tries to keep his city clean, The Big Guy (Isaac) faces off against a myriad of foes who want him dead.
Jerome Charyn must be the reincarnation of Lewis Carroll and Sidel is Alice as no one paints New York City weirder and more interesting than this author does. The story line of the tenth Sidel tale still keeps a strange freshness that continues to show the unending imagination of the author. CITIZEN SIDEL is not for everyone. However, anyone who relishes an off beat political thriller mixed in with a well-designed police procedural that comes from inside the looking glass will enjoy this novel and series.
Harriet Klausner
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