Reviewed By: Jon Jordan - Crime Spree Magazine - RAM
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Moony's Road to Hell
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Manuel Ramos
Class/Genre: Mystery Hard Boiled Ethnic Private Investigator
2002, University Of New Mexico Press, 199 pages
This book is amazing. Ramos has such an incredible ability to draw the reader into the story that it really is a one sitting read. The characters have a depth that is seldom used in fiction and the pacing of the book builds momentum through out. This book felt fresh to me, like opening a window in spring after a long winter.
The main character is Danny “Moony” Mora. He’s a PI and is hired to look into the death of an agent for the INS by one of the agent‘s co workers . The agent was killed at a bar while undercover. Most people believed it was because he was having an affair with a major player’s wife, but his buddy thinks otherwise. Mora takes the case and slowly uncovers a network of smuggling and other sundry criminal acts being committed by this group behind the killing. Mora gets closer and closer but as he does the body count rises.
The ending of this book took me totally by surprise. There may have been foreshadowing, but I was so caught up I the story I never saw it coming. I actually sat up in bed and said outloud “Wow. I can’t believe it”, and woke up my wife.
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