Rogue Island
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Liam Mulligan is as ancient school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians–who are pretty much one and the same. A name is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and likes are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic. With the police looking for answers in all the incorrect places, and with the whole city of Providence on his back, Mulligan must find the hand that strikes the match.
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Categories: Mystery & Thrillers Tags: Island, Rogue
Yikes, I made Bruce’s first review and nearly forgot to post it here for Amazon buyers! But, agreeing to review the first novel for Linked Press’s Bruce DeSilva was a small daunting for this independent reviewer. After learning, though, that it had taken Ed McBain, who wrote the 87th Precinct novels and then Otto Penzler, the dean of NYC crime-novel editors to encourage him to end his novel, and after getting over my initial excitement when I received it, I figured Bruce would expect me to do just what I permanently do–tell my readers how I honestly felt about his book!
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva had an “ancient” flavor to me, one I immediately felt comfortable with–could I really see shades of Mike Hammer in Mulligan’s style of investigating and hear Robert B. Parker’s Spenser’s witty dialogue as Mulligan quipped back his quick thoughts or was Mulligan and entirely new man I had to get to know and like? Which I did…
Or did I admire most his desire to find the truth amidst all of the corruption surrounding him, even while fighting a losing battle, as proven by his ending?
Of course, Ed McBain had been right! Bruce DeSilva’s novel is a thrilling addition to crime fiction, that reads as if Mulligan has been alive and well for many years! And I’m hoping that he will continue in future books as the tenacious investigative reporter who still believes in printing the right tale, no matter what…
Take his “Dumb and Dumber” caricature tale for the two arson investigators who were supposed to be effective to solve an epidemic of major fires in Mount Hope, Rhode Island. There had already been nine arsons in three months with five dead. Mulligan was seeing his community, his friends, losing their homes or businesses and he knew, since Polecki and Roselli had paid their way upward and then were stirred to get them away from dealing with the public, that these men were not going to find the firebug or whoever was reliable. So after outing their incompetence in headlines, Mulligan started his own investigation.
While Max Lomax would be on Mulligan’s back to write the “Dog Tale,” Mulligan would whistle for Secretariat to come give him a ride, shrug at his failure to dash to him, and then walk to his Ford Bronco. Then he’d take off to talk to his friend, the fire insurance investigator, to start brainstorming what was really behind the fires. Even the local bookmaker was concerned enough that he formed a local group, the DiMaggios to stalk the streets with baseball bats, while he, himself, sat in his private room, in his shirt, tie and boxer shorts, taking bets. They called him Whoosh for a reason! Trading information with Whoosh while Mulligan placed a bet was just part of everyday life…
Just like his friends Whoosh and Rosie the fire chief, and Lomax, Gloria and Veronica, with whom Mulligan might be falling in like, DeSilva has made characters worthy of the gutsy and sometimes treacherous newspaper world of yesterday, while he laments the possible future for newspapers in today’s world. Though his book highlights this potential loss, Bruce DeSilva, in Rogue Island has provided readers with a dynamic invasive look into the power of crime and corruption and how far it pervades our society–and even how to use it to help make things better, under the circumstances…Right?
Frankly, I reflect this is one hell of a book! Highly recommended!
Book Received
From publisher
G. A. Bixler
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Hey! Here’s the thing — and I know Ro Dialin, like, excellent enough to know how this here reader-review thing works. This is where all of Bruce DeSilva’s, uhm, associates, his competituzz and even, you know, what you might call detractuzz, are supposed to pony up a excellent word for his first $#%$&# book. You know what I’m sayin’? Maybe we liked it. Maybe we di’n't. Whatever. It don’t matter. This kind of thing, you ain’t a stand-up guy, (No offense to you ladies!) you better see if maybe you can take a $#%$&# RIPTA bus from now on, ’cause you don’t want to be startin’ your own car no more. Am I right or what?
Well, fugget all that for a sec. I’ll tell you da troot: Guy’s first novel? It’s like, genius. My hand to God! Yeah. And it ain’t like his main guy in the book, this scribbler named Mulligan, is anti Ro Dialin, or anti-Italian, or somethin’. He spreads it all around. Equal opportunity, you know? I read it, nearly took a heart! Ooh dee. Like he was the $#%$&# divisible man and he’d made a real excellent flick on my turf and I di’n't know it till it hit Blue-Ray. There’s a whole lot of Ro Dialin ‘at don’t even talk like this here. They don’t show up in DeSilva’s book all that much ’cause they ain’t, I don’t know, real, like some of us; but they ain’t no better, either. They was just brought up different so’s not to show it. See? Watch this. Now pay attench’. Capisce?
You. Yeah, satchel eyes. Coming out of the bookstore. Over here. Just want to ax you sump’n. You read “Rogue Island” yet? Yeah? Wudjizz reflect?
“I’d say it’s wonderful, top-drawer, especially for a first outing. A marvelous debut, really. It works at so many different levels, it’s hard to clarify unless you’ve read an dreadful lot of crime and noir fiction, and I mean the crème de la crème. I don’t suppose you … No, probably not. Anyway, DeSilva’s tale is full of so many delightful conceits. He pays …”
Hey! Did I say you could dis the guy?
“No, no, no. Au contraire. Really. What I mean is, he’s telling this stark, amusing, sad and, I reflect, powerful and passionate tale that’s as much today as the e-ink in my Kindle, but it is sooo nuanced! It really harkens to the noir of the 1940s and 1950s. He weaves turns of axiom into his tale that are deft homages, uhm, literary genuflections, to some of the acknowledged masters, people like Evan Hunter, James Lee Burke. Robert B. Parker, Dennis Lehane, Gregory McDonald, Lawrence Block, Thomas H. Cook, Loren D. Estelmen, with a plot foundation courtesy of Dutch …”
What? No broads, … err, ladies?
“Oh, fer shure, fer shure. Alafair Burke and a fine, critically acclaimed poet, Patricia Smith, who is …”
Hey. Hey. Turn it off, will ya? Basta! You a canary or what? Now, what you do is, you walk back into the store and you buy a bunch of copies of “Rogue Island.” What? How do I know what you’re going to do wid `em! Give `em out at Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, New Years, Boxin’ Day, Festa di San Giuseppe. %$#& do I care what you do wid `em? Whatever. Just get back in the store. Go it. Am I serious? Kind of question’s that? I look to you like somebody who don’t mean what he says? Get in there. I’ll watch, see that you do the right thing, `cause if you don’t …”
Wayne Worcester
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Rogue Island
Leader Bruce De Silva
The sirens are sounding, the firefighters are geared up and the energy is rising as firefighters in Mount Hope, Providence Rhode Island rush to place out a soaring inferno before it decimates an entire structure on fire and takes lives. As the heat continues to rise, the temperature soars and flames decorate the sky with black smoke engulfing both firefighters and the buildings despair sets in as the inevitable is about to take place and there is much more to come. It is not the sound of composition, boom boxes or car stereos blasting that interrupt your night’s sleep, the constant cries of the sirens, the blaring sound of horns and the screams of pain and dread as victims are hurled from the fires and the smell of decay, burnt flesh fills the nostrils of persons trying to safe lives and persons trying to survive.
Mount Hope, Providence Rhode Island is the prime target for decimation and destruction by fire. One rogue arsonist whose goal it is to make enough carnage, destruction of property in Mount Hope leaving small in its wake. Streets are filled with crime; families who are poor and have small, corruption and poverty are about to lose even more. Life is precious and property valuable to persons who live here, but the arsonist, whose agenda is reasonably different, property and lives are superfluous. Displacing families even less. Why would deliberately set fire to the stores, offices and homes of the people living there? What is the attraction and what is the gain?
Liam Mulligan is an investigative reporter who has lived in Mount Hope all of this life. Angered that a name is burning down his childhood neighborhood, destroying his memories and killing many of his friends and neighbors, he goes on a one-man vigilante hunt to seek justice. As treacherous as the flames that soar up into the sky are the many obstacles he will face before all is said and done. It will take a fantastic amount of dealing, conniving, hard work, investigative reporting and compromising his ethics and more to get the bottom of where, why and how these horrific fires ongoing and who is behind them. Crass, brash, hardnosed he crosses many lines, breaks rules, and goes against ethical practices to hunt down persons behind the decimation of his childhood neighborhood. The familiar sound on his police radio reporting a Code Red will send him out into the cold night taking pictures, asking questions and trying to place together the burnt pieces of information to form an entire picture that might be smoke free.
Capturing the reader’s attention from page one leader Bruce De Silva sets the stage for with a cast of well defined characters and one relentless investigative reporter who will stop at nothing, break every rule and cross the boundaries of what is ethically right or not, just to catch the arsonist. Will his own flames scorch him or will he come out as free as a burning inferno whose power has no end in sight and whose destruction will be infinite?
Sparks place a match to, buildings are doused with gasoline in basements in many structures as this lone rogue arsonist carries out his plot to ruin the Mount Hope Community in Providence Rhode Island. Leader Bruce De Silva’s novel is hotter than the largest inferno set by this arsonist and will keep the reader’s interest on full blast until the very end. But, who is behind these fires only the leader and this review knows, and will never reveal.
Hotter than a roaring fire that consumes a building in one blast, “Rogue Island” will kindle, place a match to, set aflame and consume the reader in a novel that is so hot, so charged with excitement you will not want to turn the last page and read the last word. With an ending that is hotter than a fiery blaze and twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very end, leader Bruce De Silva’s first novel is truly far above the rest. Writing equal to that of Connelly, Coben and Berry, Bruce De Silva sets a really high bar for others to follow.
Fran Lewis Reviewer
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
In Providence, Rhode Island, a serial arsonist is torching the Mount Hope section over the last three months with nine fires and five corpses. Reporter Liam Mulligan wants to catch the murderer who has killed friends and acquaintances from his ancient neighborhood. The city residents are in a panic as the police and fire department seem helpless.
Mulligan’s inquiry is enabled by a horde of collaborators stonewalled by a stunning coalition of cops, fire inspectors, politicians and landlords who make up the seamier underbelly of the city. Lawyers are thrown at him and the newspaper with threats to bankrupt the paper. The case turns even nastier when the police probe Mulligan insisting they have probable cause to name him a person of interest.
The key element to this strong arson investigative noir is the support cast of hookers, runners, bookies and hoods who make the atmosphere come darkly alive and mouthy Mulligan fit as one of them. The whodunit is cleverly devised to keep readers’ attention with a strong spin that will stun the audience. But, it is the denizen of the streets of the Mount Hope neighborhood especially in contrast to the “Suits” who make this an exhilarating mystery.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Bruce DeSilva breathes life into a believable Curmudgeon in Liam Mulligan(Mulligan to you)then turns him loose on the streets of Mount Hope where he is on top of his game of investigative reporting, at the chagrin of his boss. A fantastic, action packed and intense crime novel; KUDOS to Bruce DeSilva, Keep them coming!
JPFleck
Leader: River Rat & The Gift
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5