MOTOR CITY BLUE (1980) (Reply #23) - Democratic Underground

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Fri Feb 10, 2012, 12:20 PM

fadedrose (10,044 posts)

23. MOTOR CITY BLUE (1980)

This is the very first book of the Detroit series featuring Amos Walker, PI. Amos' speech and thoughts are entrenched in a mobster-based language that takes some getting used to...almost like reading a book by a foreign author

Lots of goofy characters and action after bit of a slow start, and it's moving along at a fast pace.

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31 replies	Author	Time	Post
What are you reading the week of February 5, 2012? [View all]	DUgosh	Feb 2012	OP
Fatal Error, by J.A.Jance	Ptah	Feb 2012	#1
Under the Dome by Stephen King	jannyk	Feb 2012	#2
Funny story about Under the Dome	matt819	Feb 2012	#25
I did read 11-22-63 and it was good	jannyk	Feb 2012	#30
The Englishman's Boy - Guy Vanderhaeghe. I just "discovered" this writer and the	japple	Feb 2012	#3
"Dreaming of the Bones" by Deborah Crombie	MaineDem	Feb 2012	#4
colleen McCullough's enormous series of hisorical novels	pscot	Feb 2012	#5
Still on THE TORSE IN THE TOWN by Simon Brett	fadedrose	Feb 2012	#6
Three Californias, The Wild Shore	JitterbugPerfume	Feb 2012	#7
Jake Lassiter series by Paul Levine	mvccd1000	Feb 2012	#8
Finished Anathem and still Kindling w/Infinite Jest	Onceuponalife	Feb 2012	#9
Through The Looking Glass	hamerfan	Feb 2012	#10
I used to recite	SheilaT	Feb 2012	#18
Am finishing Helene Tursten's first Inspector Huss..looking forward to number two....z	Zoigal	Feb 2012	#11
If you get MHz Worldview on your cable or satellite system (it's on public access	Lydia Leftcoast	Feb 2012	#12
Thank you, Lydia. will check it out...didn't know	Zoigal	Feb 2012	#14
Is NIGHT ROUNDS the first book? n/t	MaineDem	Feb 2012	#16
The Office of the Dead--the third in Andrew Taylor's Roth Trilogy,	Lydia Leftcoast	Feb 2012	#13
Oops, forgot my "purse book," which is John Le Carré's The Honorable Schoolboy,	Lydia Leftcoast	Feb 2012	#20
BOOM TOWN (2006) by Trevor Scott	fadedrose	Feb 2012	#15
Let us know how it ends up	mvccd1000	Feb 2012	#17
Go for this one, m	fadedrose	Feb 2012	#21
I'll look it up - thanks.	mvccd1000	Feb 2012	#22
City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris.	SheilaT	Feb 2012	#19
MOTOR CITY BLUE (1980)	fadedrose	Feb 2012	#23
Finished and I liked it...	fadedrose	Feb 2012	#26
This was book 12 for 2012 - for my info only . . . . nt	fadedrose	Feb 2012	#27
I hardly remember that one...	mvccd1000	Feb 2012	#28
Detroit was the only city occupied and surrendered...	fadedrose	Feb 2012	#29
Flashback by Dan Simmons	matt819	Feb 2012	#24
"V is for Vengeance" by Grafton, latest in her series.	TBF	Feb 2012	#31

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