Always writing around a central character such as detective David Gurney has its pros and cons.
On the positive side there is the issue of familiarity, of the connection with the character ..., all that translates into the loyalty of the reader. John verdon knows that all of us who know the unique David Gurney guy are always looking forward to a new adventure on the rope ...
But the best of all comes when you inform yourself and discover that David and John or John and David, depending on the side of the literary mirror in which you look, represent practically a single person. The alter ego usually presents some trait, a wink in which the author is guessed. In the case of John Verdon and David Gurney the coincidences extend from the origins to at least the time of college.
But focusing on the novel, what initially appears to us as a story of violence, with racism and marginal neighborhoods as the focus on which an incendiary plot moves, little by little it takes on the appearance of a crime novel in which Someone or something seems capable of controlling the chaos towards some naughty interest.
Because David Gurney agrees to investigate on his own the origin of everything, the death of a young black man in the affluence of the Bronx, he has been turning him into a martyr and the basis for periodic revolts. Things get worse when guns start ringing indiscriminately.
And just when Gurney has found that space in which the fear for his own life is overcome by his desire to know the truth, they try to remove him from the case ...
But David Gurney knows that what is happening is that something he is doing is making some powerful person uncomfortable. Moreover, it is easily sensed that this someone is very interested or is even taking charge of causing the disturbances as a smokescreen or as a maneuver towards a very different end.
Violence and fear are great tools with which evil can achieve all its objectives. And only someone like David Gurney, unavailable to discouragement when he glimpses the truth through the dark fog, may be able to uncover the cards, making everyone see the terrible manipulative capacity of those who intend to seize power by force.
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