Mad Dog Justice
Mark Rubinstein
Thunder Lake Press, Sep 1 2014, $12.99
www.thunderlakepress.com
ISBN: 9780985626808
Surgeon Roddy “Mad Dog” Dolan and Accountant Danny
Burns were best friends for over three decades ago going back to when they were
in high school. They partnered with an
acquaintance from their salad days Kenny Egan investing in McLaughlin’s
restaurant. However, Kenny’s investment
funds were borrowed from the mob; who had other plans for McLaughlin’s. Ten months ago, Roddy and Danny killed Kenny
and a demanding “investor” John Grange as well as their friendship before
leaving the restaurant business (see Mad Dog House).
Ten months later, Danny’s wife Angie worries
about her husband whose tension is stratospheric. While she pleads with him to come home from
work, someone shoots him. At the
hospital Yonkers PD Detective Harvey Morgan leads the investigation as
fortunate Danny recovers at the hospital.
Not long afterward in the parking garage at Lawrence Hospital, Roddy heads
to his car only to see someone shoot and kill anesthesiologist Walt McKay
parked near him. Morgan questions him;
while Roddy, hiding the truth from everyone, concludes he must bring Mad Dog
Justice to those stalking him, his friend and potentially their families
The second action-packed Mad Dog urban thriller is
a tense gritty entry with the consequences of what the two BFFs did continuing
to haunt them; as Shakespeare said in
Julius Caesar: "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with
their bones." Mark Rubenstein
provides an insightful morality play with trust and betrayal as key recurring
themes. With a strong support cast and
powerful opposites in personality leads, fans will enjoy Mad Dog Justice but should read the opening
act first.
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