City on Fire

rounding up

Not my kind of book, but (a) I have to admit it was entertaining to listen to in the car; and (b) I think it is probably a well-done effort in the crime/thriller genre. That said, i have some quibbles about mob stereotypes in the whole genre and also the occasional gratuitous sex. (Why, for example, did the main character's mother, a shadowy part of the novel, sleep with a college quarterback except to titillate the reader? That bit of ‘action' had nothing to do with anything.)