Afghanistan War veteran Clifford Dee is content working as a private investigator. The likable, endearing hero fights to get out of the clutches of the mafia in Reed’s sharp, relentlessly edgy tale. Fans of Max Allan Collins’s Quarry series will be pleased. Well plotted, engaging, and full of surprises A page-turner. Reed’s willingness not to pull punches-his lead’s prepared to sever fingers of the Tyes as proof for Bandoni-is refreshing. The action-rich plot, which also involves political corruption, never loses steam. This novel is told in present tense with an omniscient point of view. Structured much like an action movie, the novel begins in medias res with a short subplot, quickly resolved, that turns out to have implications for the main story. This job proves to be just the prologue to more complicated involvement with Don Bandoni, who warns Dee off being equally diligent on behalf of another, more typical client, who suspects his wife of infidelity and hires Dee to verify that suspicion. Clifford’s War is a plot-driven story with many twists, turns, and complications. Things get off to a bad start when the Tye brothers take Dee captive, but he manages to escape from the abandoned church where he’s been left strapped to a table and pursue the Tyes. Brenden had the misfortune to be in bed with the person the Tyes were targeting, the daughter of the head of a rival gang. Mafia boss Eustachio Innocenzo Bandoni hires Kentucky PI and occasional hit man Clifford Dee, the protagonist of Reed’s suspenseful crime novel, to kill assassins Darius and Marcus Tye after the Tye brothers murder his nephew, Brenden Bandoni.
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