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Overview

A small-time bookie is overcome by greed, lust, and extraordinary circumstances.

Eddie Ryan operates in the rough-and-tumble East End section of Houston, and just lost a bundle on the World Series. For him, there's only one way out: a phone call to a local loan shark. This triggers a sequence of events which soon send him running to save his own skin.
Complicating matters is the presence of two strong women. One is Felina, the Mexican beauty he has always desired. The other is Linda, his older sister and the power figure in his life since early childhood.
There are no clear-cut good guys. Only the cop cars are black and white, while everything else swirls in a kind of gray soup. Eddie plunges into a morally treacherous world, from the inner city of Houston to the French Quarter of New Orleans. Get ready for a fast-paced, nerve-jangling ride, where no one can be trusted, and life expectancy is short.

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Vicki Hendricks
Dennis writes true noir. The Take is a fast-motion train wreck from page one, twisting the reader's heart for the desperate souls on a ride they never chose.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781603182768
  • Publisher: L & L Dreamspell
  • Publication date: 10/28/2010
  • Pages: 178
  • Sales rank: 917,484
  • Product dimensions: 0.38 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 5.50 (d)

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  • Posted March 27, 2011

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    The Take

    Descriptions of "The Take" describe it as noir (also known as black fiction). I always have to look up the word noir when I see it used. I have a sense what it means, but can't put it into words without prodding. According to Wikipedia, the website that knows everything, noir is a subset of "hardboiled fiction" (think Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, or more recently Robert Parker and Walter Mosley). The noir subset differs mainly in that the protagonist is typically not a detective, as is usually the case with a hardboiled novel, and tends to be self-destructive. Elmore Leonard is an example of a contemporary bestseller writing in this literary style.

    From the synopsis above, it should be apparent that Eddie Ryan is a self-destructive protagonist. I'll often not find this type of character sympatric, yet Eddie was different. He took a bit of a gamble, let's call it a risk instead, just as any businessperson might. All his actions after that are a matter of doing what he thinks he must to survive.

    Eddie's adventures will keep you on edge as he struggles to survive as you both try to decide whom he should trust. Whether he will escape and what price Eddie will have to pay is unclear until the end. Fan's of Elmore Leonard should find Mike Dennis an author worth watching - and worth reading.

    **Originally written for "Books and Pals" book blog.**

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