Review: Dark City Blue packs one hell of a punch.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2012
Tom Bishop grew up in the cab of a truck, on the run with his dad, who was wanted by the cops for killing his wife, Tom's mother, "with the butt of a longneck." Tom ended up in an orphanage, and never knew when to stop throwing punches. Cop, Patrick Wilson, who had lost his own son from leukaemia, adopted him, and guided young Tom into the police force.Dark City Blue is the story of Bishop's one man war against a corrupt gang of major crime squad boys, a paedophile/snuff ring headed up by someone who should know better, and crooks everywhere. In the process he gets shot, glassed, bashed and battered. It has some great supporting characters: Wilson, Alice, Ellison, and antagonists:  Rayburn and the Franks boys were standouts.I read this book from cover to cover in less than twenty four hours, and when I wasn't reading it I was thinking about it. It moves fast. Sometimes too fast, and I was left grappling for something to anchor me to the story. It gave me that same feeling as watching the first Underbelly series--that slightly sick feeling but can't turn your eyes away. It is violent, and the body count rises dramatically as the story goes on.I highly recommend this book, it's a fantastic read with interesting things to say on corruption, violence, and the seedier side of the world that some of us are born into.