Iron House
John Hart
St. Martins, July 2011
John Hart, two time Edgar Award winner, returns with a powerful new novel this July. In Iron House Hart develops a mystery/thriller reminiscent of Harlan Coben in how one character’s intense search for individual identity, meaning, salvation develops while caught in discovering a mysterious past.
Take a mob hit man, add a love affair, subtract support from the mob family, add a sudden need to escape flying bullets, and the reader is thrown into a fast moving journey filled with sudden twists, surprising discoveries, and blood chilling adventures. With truly psychotic characters drawn in such a deft manner that the reader finds sympathies fluctuating from moment to moment.
All in all, Hart has written a novel that does not disappoint. The action never stops. The characters never stop surprising the reader, and never stop developing new nuances. Those new to Hart’s novels will not only love this book, but will be ordering his earlier books for the essential shelves of their libraries.
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