Blind to Midnight

The Nick Ryan Series, Book 2

De: Reed Farrel Coleman

Narrado por: Peter Giles

When you’re in trouble, you call 911.

When cops are in trouble, they call Nick Ryan.

Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud.

He doesn’t wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York.

Nick Ryan can find a criminal who’s vanished. Or make a key witness disappear.

He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city.

Nearly three thousand New Yorkers died on 9/11. But in the entire city on that tragic day, only one murder actually took place. Now, over two decades later, Detective Nick Ryan must dig beneath the official report—and into his own past—to find the truth.

Working again for the mysterious power broker “Joe,” Nick finds a link between an airman, a billionaire, a trove of Nazi gold, and a crew of killers, but gets sidetracked when his dear “uncle” Tony and Tony’s wife are murdered in a professional hit.

Nick’s investigations uncover a tangled web of corruption and blood money, and as the horrifying truth emerges, he finds himself outgunned, on the run, and trusting no one.

With professional killers on his trail, will Nick Ryan be able to end the violence before he loses everything that matters to him—including his own life?

©2024 Reed F. Coleman, Inc. (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing

A Satisfying Follow-Up

Reed Farrel Coleman delivers another muscular, fast-paced yarn about Nick Ryan, an NYPD detective who serves as a fixer of sorts for a cabal of elites whose interests may or may not align with serving justice to those out of reach of the system’s normal machinery. A labyrinthine plot that would make Brett Halliday tip his hat, Ryan pursues converging cases, all while dispatching a small army of would-be assassins and keeping New York’s most glamorous and gorgeous women at bay. The over-reliance of the “we can’t be together because my enemies might use you as leverage” trope feels a bit forced, as such a conviction would seem to require Ryan to be aware that he is a character in an ongoing series where, despite elaborate measures to keep his work clandestine, preternaturally resourceful and determined villains will inevitably emerge to kidnap and murder his loved ones. However, Coleman’s lean prose, the vulnerability he allows his characters, and natural storytelling gifts keep the larger than life story grounded in a compelling emotional reality. Peter Giles delivers a nuanced and hypnotic performance. I highly recommend this series and author.

RFC has really come into his own now.

He came to me as one of Dr. Parker's successors. Reed Farrell Coleman has now found his unique voice and character in Nick Ryan. This is all merely my perspective but with about a thousand Audible titles I can't think of another like Nick. I'm not counting the hundreds of paper books going back to John D. MacDonald and Alistair McLean et al. Peter Giles is also the perfect guy to bring Nick to life. Search for my "Prayer Review" if you like I'll be adding RFC.

The complex plot

Very good, complex plot.
What I found annoying was the Ex-girlfriend , beautiful but not terribly bright!