Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1)

Posted on 23 April 2017 by Laird Barron

Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska he s tough, seen a lot, and dished out But when he forcibly ends the moneymaking scheme of a made man, he gets in the kind of trouble that can lead to a bullet behind the ear Saved by the grace of his boss and exiled to upstate New York, Isaiah begins a new life, a quiet life without gunshots or explosions Except a teenage girl disappears, and Isaiah isn t one to let that slip by And delving into the underworld to track this missing girl will get him exactly the kind of notice he was warned to avoid. Best Download Books Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1) By Laird Barron – kino-fada.fr When he sees his fellow gangsters killing walruses for fun, Isaiah Coleridge chops one of them in the throat and winds up exiled to a work farm in upstate New York A teenage girl also staying at the farm disappears and Isaiah means to find her, stirring up a hornet s nest of gang members and corrupt law enforcement2017 was the year of Laird Barron for me I managed to read every book he had in print so it was a no brainer that I d pick up this one, his first foray into crime fiction Barron When he sees his fellow gangsters killing walruses for fun, Isaiah Coleridge chops one of them in the throat and winds up exiled to a work farm in upstate New York A teenage girl also staying at the farm disappears and Isaia...Laird Barron s Blood Standard is a top notch crime fiction story that has a great narrative voice even from the beginning Take a half Maori a Polynesian ethnic group who is indigenous to New Zealand mobbed up enforcer at odds with his ex military father who killed his mother and finds himself exiled by the Outfit from Alaska to the Hudson River Valley Talk about two wildly different neighborhoods Isaiah Coleridge is a tough g... I received a free advance copy from NetGalley for review.Apparently the American mob is just like Starbucks in that they ve got franchises everywhere, including Alaska.Isaiah Coleridge is an enforcer who has been working this frozen turf for a while, but he gets in big trouble after crossing a deadly local boss That earns him a vicious beating as well as a dangerous enemy He s also exiled from Alaska and sent to live on a farm in upstate New York as part of his punishment Isaiah is content to I received a free advance copy from NetGalley for review.Apparently the American mob is just like Starbucks in that they ve got franchises everywhere, including Alaska.Isaiah Coleridge is an enforcer who has been working this frozen turf for a while, but he gets in big trouble after crossing a deadly local boss That earns him a vicious beating as well as a dangerous enemy He s also exiled from Alaska and sent to live on a farm in upstate New York as part of his punishment Isaiah is content to follow orders about staying away from family business as he spends his days shoveling shit for the couple who run the place, and he makes several new friends while living a quiet life However, when the couple s wild young granddaughter disappears after hanging around several lowlifes Isaiah can t help but to reenter the murky underworld of mobsters, dangerous gangs, murderous hillbillies, crooked cops, and Feds to ...I m on team Coleridge Until he punches me in the ribs I m kind of delicate Brimming with memorable characters, action, nastiness, and well, fun that s my kind of fun, and I imagined Laird cackling wildly as he wrote parts of this book.This is the first book in a new hard boiled detective series featuring Isaiah Coleridge, a mob enforcer who was working in Alaska until being exiled to upstate New York near the home of his estranged father after a problem involving walruses pissed off the wrong man Isaiah is half Maori, has a fondness for classic literature and can t stand seeing animals abused Isaiah has been given a cover story to explain his arrival at Hawk Mountain Farm and Center for Symbolic Studies, run by the elderl This is the first book in a new hard boiled detective series featuring Isaiah Coleridge, a mob enforcer who was working in Alaska until being exiled to upstate New York near the home of his estranged father after a problem involving walruses pissed off the wrong man Isaiah is half Maori, has a fondness for classic literature and can t stand seeing animals abused Isaiah has been given a cover story to explain his arrival at Hawk Mountain Farm and Center for Symbolic Studies, run by the elderly African American couple Virgil and Jade Walker, both of whom have doctorates in literature and sociology Their 18 year old granddaughter Reba has a history of getting into trouble and hanging with iffy friends, so she has been sent to live with them for a while When Reba goes missing, Isaiah agrees to try to find her However, the search for the girl gets lost in this book, in which there is a little too much going...This ARC is an uncorrected advance proof Publication date is May 29, 2018.Time to get fucking excited people This was an excellent read I read it in one sitting and only wish I could read it again for the first time My ridiculously high expectations were met and now I just want that second book in the series Isaiah Coleridge is a great protagonist and the kind of well developed hard boiled character I love to see cinder blocks chucked at What I mean is, when your hero is this well drawn from the start, like Isaiah is, and you know you re in the hands of a writer Time to get fucking excited people This was an excellent read I read it in one sitting and only wish I could read it again for the first time My ridiculously high expectations were met and now I just want that second book in the series Isaiah Coleridge is a great protagonist and the kind of well developed hard boiled character I love to see cinder blocks chucked at What I mean is, when your hero is this well drawn from the start, like Isaiah is, and you know you re in the hands of a writer like Barron, I for one, just like to hold on and see what shit the author throws at them A great series character is one you want to continue the journey with aft...BLOOD STANDARD is an outstanding crime novel immersed with style, wit, and pages filled with a tipped over barrel of violence Barron succeeds in telling a compelling page turning mystery while simultaneously and most entertainingly filling out the character of Isaiah Coleridge, a massive bulldozer of brute force with a penchant for wisecracks to cover an underlying river of cunning.Coleridge does not fear the things most men fear, and the anomaly drives his reputation for being one of the bad BLOOD STANDARD is an outstanding crime novel immersed with style, wit, and pages filled with a tipped over barrel of violence Barron succeeds in telling a compelling page turning mystery while simultaneously and most entertainingly filling out the character of Isaiah Coleridge, a massive bulldozer of brute force with a penchant for wisecracks to cover an underlying river of cunning.Coleridge does not fear the things most men fear, and the anomaly drives his reputation for being one of the baddest and cold hearted triggermen in the gangster underworld But as Barron peels back the layers of who Coleridge is, readers will f... I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley to read and review.BLOOD STANDARD by Laird Barron is about Isaiah Coleridge, who s father is a descendant from coal miners down south, and mother is a Maori from New Zealand, and is an enforcer for the Chicago division of the Outfit, who s been assigned to Alaska for some time and finds himself in trouble when he interferes with an illegal hunt for walrus ivory by a made man he s assigned to.Vitale Night, the man Isaiah assaults I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley to read and review.BLOOD STANDARD by Laird Barron is about Isaiah Coleridge, who s father is a descendant from coal miners dow...Whatever else I think about this book the first in the crime thriller category by this author I cannot deny his way with words Even when the going takes gruesome turns, the main character, Isaiah Coleridge, has the chutzpah of a Raymond Chandler private eye combined with the philosophical musings of the late Robert B Parker s Spenser And that s a good thing otherwise, Coleridge once a mob enforcer wouldn t be a ...

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23 April 2017

Laird Barron