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    Trigger City

    By Sean Chercover

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    The facts:

    A lonely woman was murdered by her disturbed coworker.

    The police have investigated. The case is closed.

    But facts are not truth.

    A routine investigation of an open-and-shut case is just what PI Ray Dudgeon needs to recover from the physical and emotional consequences of confronting the Chicago Outfit—until "routine" spirals out of control. The victim was no quiet, unassuming, unlucky single woman; she lived a double life in the shadowy realm of covert intelligence . . . and she died for the truth. Suddenly, Ray's ensnared in a conspiracy of darkness that weaves its way through the very fabric of the nation, and in grave danger of becoming collateral damage in America's war on terror. And his greatest enemy may be himself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061981807
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    Trigger City
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    Sean Chercover

    Sean Chercover is a former private detective turned novelist and screenwriter. A native of Toronto, he has held a motley assortment of jobs over the years, including video editor, scuba diver, nightclub magician, encyclopedia salesman, and truck driver. He is the author of two award-winning novels featuring Chicago private investigator Ray Dudgeon: Big City, Bad Blood and Trigger City. After living in Chicago; New Orleans; and Columbia, South Carolina, Sean has returned to Toronto where he lives with his wife and son. His fiction has won the Anthony, Shamus, CWA Dagger, Dilys, and Crimespree awards, and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Barry, Macavity, Arthur Ellis and ITW Thriller awards.

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    • 3/5
      Second in the series. Well done. Good characters. Good carryover from the first book. I will keep reading this series.
    • 5/5
      I was stunned to learn Sean Chercover is not native to Chicago -- in Trigger City, he captured the tempo, the rhythm, the flavor of the city, with all its grit and glory -- and wrote a damned exciting mystery/thriller novel in the process. When's the next one due, Sean?
    • 4/5
      This is the second book to feature the PI Ray Dudgeon and like the first I'm still trying to figure out if its good or not. This time the story involves military contractors and selling secrets to China. There's also a fair smattering of Ray's private life involving a girlfriend who can't accept what he does for a living, a friend from childhood with personal demons whose also a merc, and Ray's recovery from injuries sustained in the last book. Its a good fast moving plot that will keep you interested until the end. The characters are engaging though some times they feel like they've been cut from the pages of the detective fiction catalogue. This is one of those books that every time you become almost completely swept up in action the author will write a couple pages that are so wooden it jars you back. So my hope is that he continues to write and those pages become less and less.
    • 5/5
      Quintessentially Chicago: This is a very "noir" crime novel, as in the likes of Dashiell Hammett. Ray is a deeply flawed, very violent man, with a penchant for introspection. The character is drawn with exquisite detail. So is the city of Chicago in which it takes place. The plot hums along at a most satisfactory pace. This award-winning novel is a must for all Chicagoans, and for devotees of crime fiction everywhere.
    • 4/5
      I read this on an airplane and it's a good airplane book, holds your attention for the requisite 3 hours, and then when you finish it, it's easy to forget. I liked teh character of Ray Dudgeon, and this is the second in a series, and while I hadn't read the first, I pretty followed everything that was happening (or at least I think I did). I found the denoument abit over the top, as if often the case when everything has to rush together, but I liked the writing and would read another from this author. I realize t hat this review is really generic, with no particulars about the plot - Ray is recovering from the incidents of the first book. He is hired by a distraught dad to look into the case of his daughter's murder. It's all murkier than it first appears. Ray stands up to the evil empire and saves the girl... but not his girl. He does kill one man, and who that man was and where he came from was the weakest part of the book for me, but I'll spend time with Ray again.
    • 5/5
      A follow up to "Big City, Bad Blood," P.I. Ray Dudgeon reluctantly accepts a case to find out what is behing Joan Richmond's recent murder by Stephen Zhang. Joan's father, Isaac Richmond, a retired army colonel, tells Ray that he needs closure. He had been talking to Joan when she went to answer her door and was murdered.Joan's prior employer was H.M.Nichols, military contractors. Ray finds out that the company is shady and is subject of a congressional inquiry on their billing. Since Joan ran their billing, she was scheduled to testify.Ray speaks to the person in charge of H.M.Nichols and is given a smoke screen interview. He's also introduced to Blake Sten, VP of Security who attempts to intimidate Ray, without success.What Ray and his buddy, Gravedigger, surmise is that Steve Zhang found something in the company's computer files. Sten fires Zhang with a fabricated story and soon but Zhang and Joan are dead.I was totally captivated by the story. Not only is Ray a good detective, but he shows his human traits in not being able to give up his girlfriend, being afflicted with a bad shoulder from an injury in the last novel, and by making mistakes that have a fatal restul for one character. The author gives a nice plot twist and provides excellent character development.Critics agree: "Trigger City" has received the following:Agatha Award nominee 2009Barry Award nomination 2009Crimespree Award, Favority Book of 2008Dilys Award.
    • 5/5
      Very enjoyable, read over the course of just a few days and was the kind of book you're anxious to get back to. I usually try to read series books in order but although I have "Big City Bad Blood" sitting in my to be read pile I actually read "Trigger City" first and there were occassions in which references are made that relate back to events in the previous book that made me wish I had followed the order but this doesn't actually hurt the narrative of this book. All told I like the character of Ray Dudgeon and will soon go back to read "Big City Bad Blood" and hopefully further novels. In the meantime I'll just have to go out and pick up the various short story collections "KILLER YEAR" and "CHICAGO BLUES". Story itself involves a military contractor Hawk River (Blackwater anyone?) various alphabet soup intelligence agencies as they are referred to by the author and in the middle of all this one PI trying to solve the mystery of why the murder has taken place because everyone knows who did it......
    • 5/5
      Sean Chercover captured me with Big City, Bad Blood, a marvelous debut deserving of all its accolades and awards. Trigger City manages to raise the bar, returning to Ray Dudgeon in the aftermath of the BCBB, suffering, uncertain, and faced with an investigation that highlights Ray's own inner darkness. This was a book I couldn't put down and which stays with me now. If he keeps this up, Chercover is going to become one of the all time greats.