Tin City: David Housewright

Wow! After only a few pages into Tin City, I was already half in love with Rushmore McKenzie. Handsome, tough, sensitive...sigh! But enough of the girl talk. This story grabbed me from page one and it's so fast paced and action packed, I didn't want it to end.

McKenzie is an ex cop who has nothing better to do than help out a friend, so when old Mr. Mosely wants to find out why his honey bees keep dying, Mac jumps right in and finds himself involved in something much deeper. When the student hired by Mac starts looking for a biological reason for the dying bees near neighboring property, Ivy Flynn becomes target practice. When trying to approach Frank Crosetti -- owner of said neighboring land -- for a simple explanation, Mac and Mr. Mosely end up on the wrong end of a shotgun.

Mac tries for a little payback of his own. Enlisting the help of close friend and lawyer, Billy Tillman, Mac tries for legal intimidation which backfires horribly with very bad things happening to those he loves. Set out for vengeance, Mac tangles with everyone, from the FBI to the Mafia. Fighting to stay ahead of those out to get him, his investigation leads him to a unique trailer park community, a forgotten town of its own, and into the arms of a sweet songwriting angel.

This book rocks and rolls all the way to the end, and I'm just sorry I didn't get to read David Housewright's first McKenzie novel, A Hard Ticket Home, but I’m going right out to get it! I give this one 4 stars for being thoroughly entertaining.

ISBN: 084395762X
Mass Market Paperback, 323pp
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur (April 14, 2005)
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