Well if this isn't a book that knocks your socks off...I don't know what is! Moonlight Rising by Vincent Zandri is an edge-of-your-seat thriller alright, and one that made me envious that I hadn't read the first two books!Book Details:
Publisher: StoneGate Ink
Publication Date: August 13, 2011
Book Summary:
“Life sucks. Then you die. Or, if you’re Dick Moonlight, first you die and then you live.”
Dick Moonlight is dead.
Really dead this time, now that three President Obama-masked thugs dressed all in black and communicating only with hand-held voice synthesizers pressed up against their voice boxes have beat the life right out of him inside a dark, downtown Albany alley. What are the thugs after? A box. Size, weight, description unknown. They also want him to stay away from his newest and only client: a handicapped nuclear engineer of dubious Russian heritage by the same of Peter Czech.
But then, now that they’ve killed him, Moonlight’s problems seem to be over. In fact, as he undergoes an out of body experience, his soul floating above his train-wreck of a corpse inside the Albany Medical Center I.C.U., he feels pretty damned good. Great in fact. To make death all the more sweeter, his one true love, Lola, is standing by his bedside. With her long dark hair draping her chiseled face and big round Jackie O sunglasses hiding tear-filled eyes, she appears every bit the grieving sig other. Nothing could make the dead-and-gone Moonlight prouder.
But then something happens. Something bad. A man enters into the I.C.U. Some young guy. He takes hold of Lola’s hand, and pulls her into him. Together, the two share a loving embrace over Moonlight’s dead body. Now, what seemed like a peaceful death is anything but. Moonlight wants back inside his body so he can face-off Some Young Guy and find out if his true love has in fact been cheating on him. At the same time, he wants to find out the true identity of those thugs who killed him so he can exact his revenge. No doubt about it, Moonlight needs to live if he’s going to uncover some pretty painful answers and take care of business.
Like a little kid dropping down a playground slide, Moonlight slides right back inside his bruised and broken body. Opening his eyes the white light blinds him. He feels the pain of his wounds and the pain of his breaking heart.
Life sucks, then you die.
But Moonlight rises.
My Thoughts:
Like I mentioned before, this is a great book. I think Zandri has such a unique writing style, and he puts on quite a show with this novel. I was a little worried about not having read the first two books but quickly overcame that because this novel was so engrossing. But it does make me want to go back and read those too!
There were so many twists and turns and so many unexpected things that happened that as a reader I constantly wondered what was around the "next page." There are lots of secrets and and lots of things to figure out in this one which makes it all the better. The author does a great job of giving enough of the back story that readers can easily keep up with what is going on.
Zandri really lets humor come through in this novel as well, and throughout the book I found myself chuckling to myself - and that doesn't happen often!
Giving this one 5 stars, pick it up ASAP!
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