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The 211 Club edition by Peter McArdle Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks

One of the most literate books I've read in quite some time. McArdle touches on the following issues:
- the corruption and just mean-ness of parole officers and their attitudes toward ex-cons;
- the viciousness of some cons in prison and the gang society that seems to effectively run the prison populations;
- the attitude of some police officers toward ex-cons;
- and much more.

Dialog is excellent - this is probably one of the best writers of believable dialog.

The anti-hero, Wyatt - I feel ambiguous about him. He was set up and took the fall. A little too macho for someone who plainly isn't. I had to suspend disbelief too much for him.
The character of Mark the Shark was also un-believable. He would have been capped a long time before the timing of this story.

And I think that the criminality of the police, especially the FBI agents, would have had them out of the force years before as well.

But it is a lucid and highly readable story.

A definite good read. Well done Mr. McArdle!


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The 211 Club edition by Peter McArdle Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

Interesting characters and great dialogue make this book come to life. Not people you'd want to meet, but people you'd want to watch on the big screen.
Peter McArdle is a brilliant writer whose intelligence and real-life experience shine through in his work. He creates a detailed and varied landscape for his characters who are multi-dimensional and developed in more-than-pulp-fiction style while retaining the entertaining and colorful qualities of that genre. An enjoyable read for those who love cop and crime stories who want to know the inside workings of the criminal and legal systems and wish to gain an understanding that they should be improved and updated. Thrilling and educational.
i've read this material in at least three different forms over the years, and every pass is a gas, gas, gas. peter knows his streets, and his torn and frayed people. as a writer, he is unblinking and packs a punch, just like our mutual hero EDDIE BUNKER, who never wrote a sloppy sentence, or an apologetic one. peter also reminds me of DON WINSLOW, who deserves his current acclaim, but truth be told, (and why else are we here?) peter has a level of authenticity that is pretty hard to beat. check this out and hold on. the ride WILL be wild.
The 211 Club captured me, one of those books I couldn't put down. The characters became friends and enemies and demonstrated human nature at its best and worst. Good and evil were not defined by the uniform each character wore good bad guys and bad good guys.

I appreciated McArdle's honest style and character development which vividly allowed the truth that life circumstances often force our reality - it may not be of our own choosing.

This is an action-packed experience of life and McArdle tells a poignant story very well.
The Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting For The Man" played in a continuous tape loop in my head as I wound my way through "The 211 Club." Peter McArdle's literary milieu is the underworld of prisons, drug deals, ambitious small-time felons, crack whores and racially charged gang warfare, and how they intersect with each other and with the law enforcers of the USA. McArdle knows this world intimately from personal experience, and has lived to tell quite the tale. He writes with a minimum of rhetorical frills, trusting the almost relentless action to hold the reader's attention. Switching back and forth via flashbacks between the world of a California prison and the wider world, represented by some of the seedier neighborhoods of San Francisco and only marginally less terrifying than the jailhouse, McArdle holds back nothing as he puts us through the wringer with his protagonist and his nightmarish experiences. Blending two-fisted pulp fiction with crime procedurals and occasional flourishes of literacy and irony, employing much profanity, cynicism and violence befitting the subject matter, the novel is heavily dialogue-driven and to me, cries out to be a screenplay. It has the ring of truth to it. I look forward to reading more from the author.
The 211 Club is a heart thumping, wild ride that takes us right into the scrum. There are no imaginary characters here. Right from the start we enter a world where we are looking for the exits. These are voices and consequences that leave no room for debate, it's all action. If you want clarity, truth, excitement and adventure read this book. Now!
I read this whole book in two sittings. I couldn't put it down. I don't usually like stories that are so violent but this one held my interest in spite of the violence. The main characters were all criminals but I found myself rooting for them anyway and the author has a great ear for dialog. It's hard for me to believe that the police could be so bad--it reminded me of that movie Training Day. And I kept coming back to what was written in the description--that the characters in this book were based on real people. THAT'S a scary thought.
Anyway if you like crime stories this one is for you.
One of the most literate books I've read in quite some time. McArdle touches on the following issues
- the corruption and just mean-ness of parole officers and their attitudes toward ex-cons;
- the viciousness of some cons in prison and the gang society that seems to effectively run the prison populations;
- the attitude of some police officers toward ex-cons;
- and much more.

Dialog is excellent - this is probably one of the best writers of believable dialog.

The anti-hero, Wyatt - I feel ambiguous about him. He was set up and took the fall. A little too macho for someone who plainly isn't. I had to suspend disbelief too much for him.
The character of Mark the Shark was also un-believable. He would have been capped a long time before the timing of this story.

And I think that the criminality of the police, especially the FBI agents, would have had them out of the force years before as well.

But it is a lucid and highly readable story.

A definite good read. Well done Mr. McArdle!