White Rush/Green Fire - Hardcover

McGarrity, Mark

2.75

8 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688086586 ISBN 13: 9780688086589

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1991

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The relationship between six friends is torn apart by greed and violence when they accidently recover millions of dollars from a drug deal gone sour while sailing in the Bahamas

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From Kirkus Reviews:

What happens to six friends cruising the Caribbean when they come across $2.4 million cash and $10 million stash from a drug deal gone bad: a gripping, though overextended, crossover novel from the chronicler, as ``Bartholomew Gill,'' of Dublin Chief Inspector McGarr (The Death of a Joyce Scholar, etc.). Five of the six finders--NYPD Deputy Chief Bill Cicciolino and his social-justice crusader wife Gerri, Columbia prof Jay Gelb and his oversexed wife Arlene, and Gerri's chronically tipsy brother Tug McCann--jump at the chance to grab the loot from the dead and dying dealers and peddle the coke in New York. But the sixth, Tug's girlfriend Eva Burden, jumps ship in revulsion and swims smack into not-quite-dead drugrunners Brian Nathanson and David Creach, whom she nurses back to health, falling in love with Nathanson, who really wants his money back. As for the other five, sounds like Sierra Madre time--but instead of letting them stew until they tear each other apart (though Bill does start playing around with Arlene, Jay sticks a fortune up his nose, etc.), McGarrity hits them with a Fan Club plot: it includes not only Nathanson but Medell�n's handpicked assassin, glamorous deaf Solange Mercier la Guatavita ( who has her own lethal quarrel, if she only knew it, with her clients) in hot pursuit, and Eva, whose previous murderous brush with Solange makes her the only person who can warn the new kids on the block before their numbers come up. Bill's convoluted scheme to dispose of the stash is entertaining, and it's fun to see him and his colleagues getting picked off one by one, but you'll finish this long, overplotted, and genuinely thrilling thriller with a combination of confusion and relief. McGarrity's unquestioned ability to tighten the screws for 500+ pages makes this an exhausting read--and maybe too much of a good thing. -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Library Journal:

Recent Edgar nominee (for Death of a Joyce Scholar , Morrow, 1989, as Bartholomew Gill) McGarrity makes a sharp departure from his usual form with this violent, morbidly fascinating thriller. Six friends on a sailing vacation in the Bahamas come upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone disastrously wrong. Led by a high-ranking New York City police officer, the group decides to help themselves to the millions in cash and cocaine left behind; one member jumps ship to avoid the destruction she knows is sure to follow. The Colombian drug lords unleash a beautiful, deaf assassin to recover their losses, and the body count begins to mount. McGarrity never makes any of the five very sympathetic, and the reader may well be rooting for the assassin. McGarrity does score solid points, though, when he points up the horrors of violence and the amorality bred by drugs. The moral ambiguity of the book's only sympathetic characters--oddly enough, two drug dealers--will make the reader ask whether redemption can, and should, come after so much death and destruction. Recommended for large fiction collections.
- Dean James, Houston Acad. of Medicine/Texas Medical Ctr. Lib.
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