| Blind Pig |  | Author: Jon A. Jackson
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 7006136
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0871135361
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780871135360
ASIN: 0871135361
Publication Date: June 1994
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Product Description
Guns. Everyone has one. The good guys. The bad guys. The guys in between. Mulheisen can't see the fascination, but he's made a career of cleaning up the messes. Now he's on a case that began when a cop shot a prowler, two hit men shot a jukebox, and a "delicious kumquat" of a woman used her own brand of ammo onMulheisen in the after-hours world of blind pigs and jazz joints. Reissue.
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 Plotting makes it work... February 15, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of Jon Jackson's first novels featuring Sergeant Mulheisen of the Detroit PD, if not the first. The plotting here is excellent; there are a lot of threads that Jackson knows how to interweave, giving this baby momentum. And once in a great while there's a genuinely funny line. The characters are nicely drawn, too. The fly in the ointment is the writing which can be occasionally clunky and awkward. If that doesn't bother you, then this is a nifty little police procedural that, for fans of the genre, will keep you going. Mulheisen, portrayed as one of the cooler heads on the force, gets drawn into a few different crime threads. A mysterious intruder at the home of a young wealthy trucking magnate is killed by two patrolmen. Two thugs come into a local watering hole and shoot up both the jukebox and the cigarette machine, purportedly owned by the same young trucking tycoon. A great looking woman, a friend of the tycoon, lures Mulheisen with her sexiness and charm, and, later disappears. And a huge gun heist, coupled with a huge crash involving a runaway train, brings things to a head. Lotta stuff going on here, but Jackson pulls it all together well. Mulheisen has to put the puzzle pieces together and does an admirable job, for sure. It's unfortunate that the choppy writing gets in the way; otherwise, it would rate at least four stars. Your call.
 The Blind Pig April 7, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an absolutely fantastic book. As an ex-Detroiter, I especially enjoyed it. Mr. Jackson writes one of the best humorous crime type books available. His information about Detroit is perfect, I guess he lived there too! I honestly hated to finish this book because I knew that it would take me a long time to find a novel that I would enjoy as much as this one.
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