The First Rule

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THE FIRST RULE by Robert Crais.

5 stars

The 1st rule of Serbian gangsters is kill your family and relatives.

More or less this book is about two Serbian gangster lords trying to kill a 10 month old baby. They moved to America, to take over organized crime and push blacks and latinos out, with prejudice. Its over the top explicitly violent. The detectives find several half-eaten black thugs in a house with some huge dogs. The Serbs hired the blacks for a caper then murdered them and gave them to the dogs. Others were cuffed and tossed into swimming pools, to drown.

My problem with all modern noir is its complexity and sophistication.

This one starts with a home invasion by black thugs, and ends with a major raid by the Feds, to capture 1000s of terrorist weapons. The crime lords wanna kill the baby to impress all how badass they are.
 
Love Crais, good writer and a very cool dude. A few years ago, I was running a charity auction and Bob reached out, supplying a character name, ARC of his first book, a promo cooler and a shirt for a book whose title changed. All in all, Robert raised something like $1900.

Love the Elvis/Joe series and the stand-alone novels are pretty good.
 
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