No Man's Dog
A "Fang" Mulheisen Mystery
Jon A. Jackson
Review: Jon A. Jackson continues to deliver with No Man's Dog, the solid tenth entry of the Detective Sergeant Mulheisen mystery series.
There is much to recommend here, but the best aspect of the book is the relationship between Mulheisen and his nemesis, Joe Service, with whom he must team to bring the villains to justice. They must trust each other though their history suggests neither can be trusted. They make an unlikely team, but Jackson's handling of their time together in the book is exceptional.
Colonel Tucker and his minions are entertaining in their own right and continue to be an important element in the series. The weakest part of the story involves the terrorists and their camp. It's all a bit unbelievable and excessive. Despite this minor failing, No Man's Dog is highly recommended.
Acknowledgment: Atlantic Monthly Press provided an ARC of No Man's Dog for this review.
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Selected reviews of other mysteries by this author …
Badger Games
Atlantic Monthly Press (Hardcover), June 2002
ISBN-13: 9780871138514; ISBN-10: 0871138514
Location(s) referenced in No Man's Dog: Michigan
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No Man's Dog by Jon A. Jackson
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-87113-920-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-87113-920-7
Publication Date: July 2004
List Price: $24.00
Synopsis (from the publisher): The novel opens with Mulheisen's aged mother nearly slain by an incomprehensible bombing at an orderly environmental protest. Mulheisen resigns from the force to nurse her, but as she recovers he turns his implacable attention to the bombers. The task force can't decide if it's anti-environmentalists, international terrorist group making its hideous point, or a drug cartel's attempt to quiet a witness or spring him. Mulheisen quickly questions what the Feds haven't: what about gun-happy "Imp" Luck? Was he the strange man who warned Ma Mulheisen to leave the courthouse just before the bombing occurred? All the situation needs is the volatile presence of Joe Service, sometime hatchet man for an elite group of federal agents acting above the law who call themselves the Lucani. Joe has just been tossed into the devil's cauldron by the Lucani's devious Colonel Tucker, just as an old mob contact warns him that someone he thought he'd killed is still alive - and kicking.
Some dogs prefer to hunt on their own, but will this fight bring Service and Mulheisen together, at risk of losing the prey?
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