Canary
Duane Swierczynski
Little
Brown/Mulholland Books, Feb 24 2015, $26.00
ISBN: 9780316403207
In
Philadelphia, college honors student Sarie Holland writes to her dead mom
informing her with what is going on in her life. Thus she tells her late mother that she
attended a party in which drugs and alcohol were prevalent. When one of the revelers D. needed to get a
book, he enlisted the only sober person at the gala Sarie to drive him. While she sat in her car waiting for D. to
return, PPD Narcotics cop Benjamin Wildey arrived and inspected the vehicle,
finding drugs. To escape jail; time for
possession, Sarie agreed to become Wildey’s criminal informant.
Sarie
proves a quick learn of the illegal drug trafficking market with astonishingly
uncanny instincts. However, seeing her
as his ticket for advancement, the ambitious impatient Wildey rushes the teen
in a lethal situation. Law enforcement and
killers stalk Sarie sharing the same goal of executing CI 1373.
Canary
is an exhilarating police procedural that is over the top of the Liberty Bell
as the metamorphosis of the college student into a superheroine CI seems
extremely unlikely though the audience will root for her to survive and
successfully counter. Sarie’s actions
and reactions on the mean streets make for a wildly enjoyable crime drama.
Harriet
Klausner
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