Jack Flynn series by Brian McGrory (Books #1-4)
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Overview: Brian McGrory is a longtime newspaper reporter, editor, and columnist. Born and raised in and around Boston, he went to college at Bates College in Maine. He worked for the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, the New Haven Register in Connecticut, and has written for and edited the Boston Globe since 1989. He has a twice weekly column that appears on the front of the metro section, for which he has won the Scripps Howard journalism award, and is the author of four novels. He lives in Massachusetts with his entire family.
Genre: Mystery
The Incumbent
"A dynamite book that is also wise. A real, genuine, classic political thriller." Bob Woodward
Just in time for the 2000 presidential campaign comes this crisp Washington thriller, a superb first novel from the Boston Globe’s former chief White House correspondent. The intrigue begins less than two weeks before the election. Jack Flynn, chief White House reporter for a Boston paper, asks at a press conference why President Clayton Hutchins has pardoned a certain felon. Quickly, Flynn is summoned to join the president for golf at Congressional Country Club, where he’s invited to become the next White House press secretary. Right after that, a gunman opens fire, grazing the president but landing Flynn in Bethesda Naval Hospital. He’s no sooner awake after surgery than he receives an anonymous phone warning: "Do not believe anything that they tell you." Flynn, of course, wants to investigate the attempted assassination; unfortunately for him, Secret Service agents have not only killed the shooter, but have conveniently rendered his body very hard to identify. Further mysterious phone calls put Flynn on the trail of what he suspects is an FBI coverup. From D.C., the trail leads to a remote Idaho militia stronghold, and then to murky dives in Boston. The peripatetic journalist-hero must stay one jump ahead of a killer intent on eliminating him and his story. Meanwhile, romantic overtures from sexy FBI agent Samantha Stevens tie Flynn in knots while the body count rises. As Flynn comes closer to the truth, questions of journalistic ethics, newspaper culture and Clinton-era politics begin to inform the narrative. Fans of Baldacci’s Absolute Power or Demille’s The Lion’s Game should plunge into McGrory’s enticing plot, following Flynn and his makeshift allies and enemies through a complex and credible web of deceit.
The Nominee
Even in this age of hyper-multitasking, Jack Flynn deserves the award for super investigator. A star reporter for the Boston Record, he has to juggle two murders (and potentially his own, as he is being stalked by a killer), deceit at the highest level of state and federal government, a forced sale of his newspaper, and his own competitive romance with an ace reporter from a rival paper. It is a lot to cram between two covers, but for the most part McGrory does it successfully. Author of the well-received The Incumbent, also featuring the likable Flynn, McGrory weaves together the journalistic zeal of Rick Bragg with the mystery plotting of George V. Higgins. Surely, this is a failproof title for popular fiction collections in public libraries.
Dead Line
Jack Flynn is enjoying a baseball game and the final days of his romance with rival reporter Elizabeth Riggs when he gets an incredible tip. The FBI is investigating ties between the mayor’s son and the theft of priceless paintings from a local art museum 13 years ago. Flynn jumps on the story, another in a long line of scoops he’s provided the Boston Record. But this one leads to a young woman’s death, and Flynn is left feeling angry, used, and, for a while, doubtful and dispirited about his career. His personal guilt produces uncharacteristic hesitancy as Flynn teams up with fellow reporter Vinny Mongillo and retired Boston cop Hank Sweeney to find out who’s behind the murder, the thefts, and the threats to the mayor’s ambitions to succeed a U.S. senator currently on his deathbed. This third entry in the series of part detective, part reporter thrillers by Boston Globe columnist McGrory, written in the first person in a style recalling the voices of film noir detectives, will be welcomed by McGrory’s fans.
Strangled
Deadly and deep-seated political conspiracies are nothing new to Jack Flynn, the popular lead reporter of the Boston Record. But in Strangled, he finds himself in the middle of a case that everyone thought had closed forty years ago — the Boston Strangler. From the summer of 1962 to the winter of 1964, eleven women were strangled to death in their homes. The city had been panic-stricken. Dog pounds were cleaned out. Locksmiths worked twenty-hour days. The streets emptied after dark. Single women set up phone trees to check on each other’s safety. Then, a year after the eleventh murder, the city breathed a heavy sigh of relief when convicted sex offender Albert DeSalvo confessed to the killings. Eight years later, he was stabbed to death in prison, forever ridding the world of the man who had terrorized a city. Or so everyone thought.
Boston, present-day. A series of murders has occurred in which all the victims, all female, have been strangled and left with markers eerily reminiscent of those once left by the "Phantom Fiend" — garish bows tied around their necks and their bodies ghoulishly positioned to greet investigators as they entered the crime scene.
In typical fashion, the police and local politicians have turned on their publicity machine full-throttle in an attempt to cool any rumors about the possible return of the Strangler. Little do they know that Flynn is receiving letters from the killer himself, thrusting the newsman between the threats of a madman and several secretive, uncooperative officials, who are tied to the original case. With the lives of innocent women on the line, he must use his keen journalistic skills to determine whether or not this is a copycat on the loose, or if Albert DeSalvo was, in fact, not quite the fiend everyone so easily believed him to be. Is it possible that the Boston Strangler was never captured and that he’s been lurking in the shadows, waiting to kill again?
Using fiction to examine the horrifying details of the Boston Strangler case and the possible outcomes of its investigation, McGrory has written an intelligent thriller crackling with newsroom energy and chilling suspense.
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