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JACK WAKES UP: A Novel by @SethHarwood

posted 05/17/09

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I was lucky enough to be an advance reader for this shoot-em-up, and the book's sheer testosterone-steeped power corrupted my once-pristine morals.

Welcome to the seedy underbelly of San Francisco, where drug lords, ambitious gangsters, partyin' terrorists and imported hitmen rock the bars, trash the stripclubs and tear through the city streets in a tire-squealing cherry Fastback, guns-a-blazin and bystanders be damned.

There's no wasted words in this book. JACK WAKES UP reads like watching a .44 slug in slow-motion: rope-tight storytelling that's going to punch a big hole in whatever it hits. Harwood excels at character creation, making a pantheon of playas you want to simultaneously see live forever and/or get shot in the face at point-blank range.

Jack Palms is a washed-up ex-action star on the good side of a twelve-month dance with Narcanon. Jack is the everyman that stumbles into a frantic drug war, a believable person in an unbelievable situation. Drawn into the plot by a need for cash, kept in by loyalty, then trapped by new enemies and a lack of options, Jack tries to stay alive ... and stay clean and sober.

JACK WAKES UP is like a Tarantino film pulled off the screen, rolled in a John Woo zig-zag wrapper and sparked up with a vintage Miami Vice lighter. Buy it now and thank me later.

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