The Darkest Hearts
D Hunter Mystery
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نقد و بررسی
June 1, 2020
This dark, rollicking mystery is the fifth in George's D Hunter series starring a man who has transcended his shady past as a bodyguard to become a musician's talent agent. But D's past keeps waving at him, this time in the form of an arm hooked by some people fishing off Canarsie Pier in Brooklyn. The pier, we learn, was once a famous Mob dumping ground. This particular arm belonged to a disappeared FBI agent and connects to D and his retired hit-man buddy, Ice, with whom D has a very problematic relationship. The discovery of the body part also connects to what happened in the second of the D series, The Plot against Hip Hop (2011). The ins and outs of the plot may be difficult for those new to the series, but D's point of view, his self-confessed vulnerability, and his deep appreciation for music, from R&B on, make this thoroughly satisfying reading.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)
August 10, 2020
In George’s smart fifth D Hunter mystery (after 2017’s To Funk and Die in L.A.), D, a former bodyguard turned talent manager in L.A., signs hip-hop artist Lil Daye and gets him a lucrative deal to promote a liquor brand being touted by entrepreneur Samuel Kurtz. The deal starts to sour for D when he comes across a transcript of a secretly recorded audiotape in which Kurtz tells an audience of about 20 like-minded business people that hip-hop is merely a way to make money and to destroy Black culture from the inside. Meanwhile, a body discovered near Brooklyn’s Canarsie Pier connects D with a dark, complicated character from his past. To D’s surprise, when an FBI agent wants to speak to D about the body, the agent reveals that he, too, knows about Kurtz’s anti–hip-hop agenda. When D tells Daye what Kurtz is up to, Daye doesn’t want to hear it, and so begins the almost-undoing of D’s career as a manager. Luckily, Serene Powers—an old flame of D’s who enacts justice beyond the reach of the law—helps D get his life back. This action-packed crime novel both educates and entertains. Agent: Sarah Lazin, Sarah Lazin Books.
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