Review: It's good, it's great and best of all, it ain't over yet!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
Let's begin with the ending, which comes winging at you out of left field and body-slams you and -- whew! - you know you haven't really come to the end. There's going to be more. Yes!!!!Dirty Deeds feels is smaller and tighter than other MacGuinnes books. Ford lasers in on Cole's single-minded mission to find Sheila, widow of his former police partner and would-be killer of the love of his life, Kim Jae-Min. The whole mishpocha is here; Jae, of course, and gay ex-cop turned gym owner Bobby, Cole's brothers, Mike and Ichi, his surrogate mom and office manager, Claudia, his nemesis, Det. O'Byrne, a colorful cast friends, transvestites, transgenders, and hovering over all, the ghost of his murdered lover, Rick.Beginning with Dirty Kiss, Cole has been the narrator, so you'd think you'd already know him pretty thoroughly. But no. In dirty Deeds, we examine Cole in a deeper, more intimate way, as Ford probes beneath his skin like a surgeon's forceps seeking bullet fragments. And there are plenty of bullet fragments to go around, and plenty of blood. There're also plenty of gasps, gulps, chokes, tears, smiles and, yes, very hot sex. Through it all, we feel Cole's complex relationships and reactions to his very complex world. And for new readers, be assured that Rhys has deftly sprinkled in enough backstory to answer your questions -- and enough clues and loose threads to reassure all of us that we haven't heard the last of this saga.  Okay, go touch that "buy now with one click" button right now.