Blood Mud by K C Constantine

Blood Mud by K C Constantine

Mario Balzic, retired police chief of Rocksburg Pennsylvania, swaps his service uniform for the shirt and tie of the private cop, trading his former blue-collar beat for a new white-collar clientele. There's been a burglary at the local gun shop, and Balzic must track down the missing arsenal. Stolen guns mean trouble, and under Balzic's dogged sleuthing the said trouble takes the form of a corrupt married politico cheating with a stripper; a police chief a couple of towns over hungry for the influence a little improved firepower can buy; a deli owner known as the Fat Buddha who mixes racketeering with the cold cuts and the gangsters hapless nephew, framed for selling porn and drugs. Suddenly Balzic is brought low by a cardiac episode. This personal crisis combines with an equally sudden murder to turn a solitary job into a singular mission: to stay alive, at least long enough to crack one more case...

a bravura bit of writing, maybe the best of a fine series -- Michael Carlson * Crime Time *
Terrific..one of contemporary American literature's great masters of dialogue * Washington Post *
Balzic is one of the great characters of contemporary fiction * Boston Globe *

The pseudonymous K. C. Constantine is the author of fourteen previous novels set in Rocksburg Pennsylvania. Of a shy and retiring disposition, he doesn't often give interviews but can be found in an unspecified American city in the 'rust belt'...

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ISBN 13	9781901982817
ISBN 10	1901982815
Title	Blood Mud
Author	K C Constantine
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Square Publishers
Year published	2000-07-18
Number of pages	375
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