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The Blind Pig | 
| Author: Jon Jackson
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 4656387
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 1
ISBN: 0440217148
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780440217145
ASIN: 0440217148
Publication Date: January 1, 1995
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Product Description
The Blind Pig opens as a cop kills an armed intruder and two hit men shoot a jukebox. It would seem an open-and-shut case, but the deceased turns out to have been a hit man for the mob, and Mul finds himself smack in the middle of a gun-running plot. Meanwhile, a "delicious kumquat" of a woman is using her own brand of ammo on Mulheisen in the after-hours world of Detroit jazz, and Mulheisen has figured out that the shootings revolve around a young man who'd struck it rich in trucking--and then everything explodes when someone pulls off a million-dollar heist. The take? Sleek, beautiful guns--enough to start a war.
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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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