The Big Fear
Written by Andrew Case
Narrated by Peter Berkrot
3/5
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It’s August in New York, and the steaming garbage littering the streets isn’t the only thing that stinks.
Civilian investigator Leonard Mitchell can keep his job as the new head of the Department to Investigate Misconduct and Corruption only by successfully prosecuting veteran cop Ralph Mulino.
Mulino shot an armed man on a dark night; he didn’t know the man was a fellow cop. Now, to keep his badge and his freedom, he has to make his case to the investigator. But the gun Mulino saw in his victim’s hand has disappeared.
As Mitchell digs deeper into Mulino’s claim, it becomes clear that the “misconduct and corruption” infecting New York City go far beyond the actions of one allegedly dirty cop. Murder and sabotage force Mulino and Mitchell into an uneasy partnership to uncover the truth and protect the city they are both sworn to serve.
Assuming, of course, they can stay alive…
Andrew Case
Andrew Case is the author of the novel The Big Fear and the stage plays The Electric Century, The Rant, and many others. He has been a member of the New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, a participating playwright at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, and a member of the PEN America Center. For nearly a decade he served as an investigator, spokesman, and policy director at the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates allegations of misconduct by New York City Police Department officers. Andrew has written on police reform for Newsweek, the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and other publications. A Falling Knife, sequel to The Big Fear, is the second novel in the Hollow City series. He lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn, with his wife, Claudia, and their two children.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5What has veteran cop Ralph Mulino stumbled onto when he boards a boat on the river in New York to find a dead man, and then moments later he kills a cop. When the head of the Department to Investigate Misconduct and Corruption resigns it is left to the new acting head Leonard Mitchell to investigate. But it gets complicated.
Enjoyed the story but felt some of the description could have be cut as it didn't add to the story.
A NetGalley book - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good read
Enjoyable read, my only complaint is how the author tries to make one feel that the crime rates are completely out of control when the actual trends are for the most part the opposite. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Writing was terrible. Couldn't get past the first chapter
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I received a free advance e-copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Wow, an exciting and well-written crime thriller with good character development full of twists and turns with a well-developed plot. This is a story of corruption in the New York Police Department with officers in cahoots with stock traders. Someone is getting rich by picking the right companies to sell short just before they go bust. There seems to be as much filth in city government and the police department as there is in the streets as the result of striking sanitation workers. This book starts off with a bang. A detective gets called out in the middle of the night to investigate suspicious activity and finds a dead body and another man with a gun in his hand. Then the sh----t hits the fan. He kills the man, discovers he is a police officer, and the gun disappears. From here on the action never quits and the suspense keeps building until the end. This is a keeper.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Big Fear by Andrew Case is exactly the kind of mystery I like. It is complex with conspiracy inside conspiracy. It is fair, providing all the clues we need to divine the solutions with or ahead of our detective(s), it has the requisite level of danger and suspense, and there is a creeping paranoia that develops as it progresses.It is unique, too, in the way you think it is the story of Ralph Mulino, the dispirited but stubborn police detective who has spent a good portion of his career on the outs with his colleagues. He goes out to a call one night, finds a murdered man and in a confrontation shoots someone he thinks is the killer, a man who turns out to be another cop. And things get really complicated when the dead cops gun disappears.But then, it is the story of Leonard Mitchell, a mid-level functionary who works at the Department to Investigate Misconduct and Corruption. He is assigned to investigate Mulino’s shooting and begins to suspect there might be more to it than first appears.Additional characters are also involved in advancing the story including a surprisingly brave city functionary who jumps to the private sector and discovers more than she bargained for. A few are a bit two-dimensional, particularly the beat reporter and the police accountability activist. And of course, the fixer-politician that Mitchell calls on for a bit of help is a fixer-politician, because what else would he be?This is a story of corruption in government at the highest levels, of ambition and the need for respect and order. It reflects some of the resentments of police who believed they are over-scrutinized since the increasing evidence of police misconduct and brutality. There is a poisonous contempt for the general public who seems to value liberty over safety, police accountability over police license and a longing for more respect. What that leads to is appalling, shocking, but not completely out of the realm of possibility.This is a good mystery. It is scrupulously fair if you’re paying attention, the sense of the city of New York is very real, you can see, hear and smell New York while you follow the characters. There is a gritty nobility and honesty to these characters who simply keep doing their job, even when they feel unappreciated, disrespected and undervalued. I was intrigued from the beginning and raced through the book. All in all, an excellent police procedural.I received an electronic advance galley of The Big Fear from the publisher via NetGalley.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting story about corruption in New York Police Department in cahoots with stock traders. A policeman on a routine call-out unwittingly shoots a fellow officer, unravelling a complex web of corruption. Recommended.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5On the face of it, civilian investigator Leonard Mitchell is investigating the shooting, by police detective Ralph Mulino of the Organized Crime Control Bureau, of New York Police detective Brian Rowson. But, as is often said, nothing is quite as it seems. Was this simply a tragic accident, a horrific case of friendly fire claiming the life of the young detective? Or is there something far more sinister behind his death?Suspense builds as the finely-drawn characters race to find the answers. Realistic, detailed descriptions of police procedure are a plus in this dark tale of corruption, murder, and mayhem. But the focus on politics rather than on policing and the ultimate wrongdoing and corruption revealed in the final pages may be problematic for some readers. Recommended.