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Rock Island Rock is the pulse-pounding second act in the evolution of the Crossroads series, which began with Blues Highway Blues, voted Best Blues Book of 2012 by Blues411.com.
Owing a debt to the mysterious bluesman, Mr. Atibon, reluctant hero Daniel Erickson finds himself back on the run with his lady love, Vicki Bean, and hitman friend, Moog Turner. Now the three are racing to track down the killer of a rock and roll superstar. They travel a violent and dangerous road, littered with obsessive FBI agents, vengeful Russian mobsters, brutal cartel assassins, and psychotic biker gangs. But no matter how fast and far Daniel and company run, there’s no escaping the blood they’ve spilled—and an unspeakable evil waiting for them.
- Sales Rank: #514412 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-06-25
- Released on: 2013-06-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Price has proven he is more than a one-hit wonder. All the while he is weaving the lyrics of a novelist's song, he draws the reader into a world of rock and roll and supernatural intrigue. Eyre Price is rock fiction's front man." --Rick Robinson, award-winning, international best selling author of Alligator Alley
"Rock Island Rock is a gripping thriller, as raw and compelling as the music that underscores its pages." --Melinda Leigh, best selling author of Midnight Sacrifice
"Price handles a keyboard the way Keith Richards handles a black, three pick-up Gibson Les Paul Custom on 'Sympathy For The Devil.'" --Michael Sherer, author of Night Blind
"With Rock Island Rock, Eyre Price lets us know that he's here to stay. The Crossroads series is destined for big things... Price weaves his story into the heart of America and her music and tells it like it is. Fast-paced, with a dark sense of humor and characters who remind me of many people I have known, make it unputdownable. Rock Island Rock will knock you out." --Robert Pobi, international best-selling author of Bloodman and Manheim Rex.
"Mesmerizing and original, Rock Island Rock, perfectly blends lyrical prose, Elmore Leonard-like grit, and a dose of the supernatural in this tale of a music man who’s done some bad, bad things. It’s a mystery, a story of good versus evil, and a love letter to rock and roll. Eyre Price is one of the best new voices in the genre." --Anthony J. Franze, author of The Last Justice
"Price moves the reader at a blazing pace through Daniel Erickson's frenetic world, a world punctuated by violence, desperation, crime, and redemption. Poured over all this is the soul of rock and roll, which gives the story its truly original flavor. Kudos to Price for this literary rock opera." --Carter Wilson, author of Final Crossing
About the Author
Eyre Price was born in New York and raised in Pennsylvania, and his travels have taken him across the country since then. His debut novel, Blues Highway Blues, began the Crossroads Thriller series, an exhilarating cross-country road trip through America’s musical history and folklore that continues with Rock Island Rock. A former litigator, Price left the practice of law to write and become a stay-at-home dad. He currently resides in Illinois with his wife and son.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
An already good writer gets even better
By Josh Mauthe
Second books in a series are always a tricky thing. The first book sets up your world and your characters, but the second book shows how the series is going to progress. Is this going to be a status quo kind of series, where each book is essentially a variation on a theme (say, the Jack Reacher books)? Is this a mythology-heavy series, like the Repairman Jack books turned out to be? Or some blend of the two? In many ways, the second book is going to set the tone and the pattern for all of the books to come. And so, in the early going of Rock Island Rock, I was a little uncertain about what I was seeing. Once again, Price's heroes are on the run from people pursuing them; once again, a CD seems to be their clue and their breadcrumb trail; once again, it seems that some of the story is going to be a guided tour of musical history. And while I enjoyed all of those elements the first time, I wasn't sure that Price could make a series out of those ideas without them feeling tired or contrived. But as Rock Island Rock continued, it became evident that Price was way, way ahead of me, because Rock Island Rock soon starts to jettison those elements and transform into something very different. If the first book was about a man discovering his own inner capabilities for violence and investigation, Rock Island Rock is about the effect that discovery has on his life and his relationships, to the point where the book soon becomes a progression of the story, and not just a rehashing. More to the point, the supernatural elements that so intrigued me in the first book begin to develop and flower in unexpected and intriguing ways, going from what seemed like an odd (and somewhat disconnected) element in the first novel to something far more complex and intrinsic to the story as a whole. I enjoyed Blues Highway Blues a lot, but Rock Island Rock is a more satisfying book in almost every way, from the integration of the music history into the plot to the thematic depth of the book, from the character depth to the action sequences, from the supernatural elements to the mystery itself. If there's a grumble about Rock Island Rock, it's that the central mystery almost feels superfluous to the novel as a whole, but by the book's end, it becomes evident that that's a conscious choice on the part of Price (and if you doubt it, check out a passing line from Atibon near the book's end) to let the mystery serve as a MacGuffin to further explore his flawed, violent protagonist. And if he keeps doing it this well, I plan on following that exploration for a long time to come.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Intense!
By Darcia Helle
Rock Island Rock is a combination of heart-pounding suspense, philosophical exploration and literary beauty, all set to a rock music backdrop. Daniel met his fate on Robert Johnson's crossroads, where he struck a deal with the shadowy bluesman. Now the direction his life takes is in Atibon's hands.
The action here is intense and, at times, graphic. But that's balanced with well-developed characters and a thought-provoking story. As we take the journey with Daniel, we explore the often thin line between good and evil. We ask ourselves if it's okay for a good person to do horrible things for the right reasons. And maybe we even root for him as he kills the people in his way.
I wish Daniel's choices had been more open-ended, rather than the do or die sort of thing that offers no real choice at all. Still, the story gives Daniel plenty of wiggle room, allowing us to see the kind of man he is.
This is the second book in the series. I didn't read the first one, Blues Highway Blues (Crossroads Thriller), and had no problem following the story here. But I enjoyed this one so much that I plan to go back and read the first.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Fabulous story about good, bad, violence, music, and deals with the devil and the angels
By Robin Wolfson
BAD WORD WARNING: Yes, there are bad words in this book. If such words disturb or offend you, please read something else.
VIOLENCE WARNING: Yes, there is violence in this book. Mainly because it’s a book about violence, and music, and deals with the devil.
“Daniel Erickson was many things. A flawed soul, for sure. A victim of circumstances, maybe. He was not, however, an innocent man.
“The Russian mobster had set a pair of hit men on his ass, but Daniel had shot one of them in the head. Daniel had killed those motorcycle club members the Russian had hired as extra muscle, too. And he’d played no small part in throwing that Russian mobster off a penthouse balcony. Daniel wasn’t exactly sure where the body count stood — high enough that it was just a number — but his hands were washed too deeply in blood to ever claim innocence.”
Thus, Eyre Price introduces his protagonist, Daniel Erickson, former music producer, present fugitive and unrepentant killer. Once upon a time (back at the beginning of “Blues Highway Blues,” the first of the “Crossroads” thriller series), Daniel Erickson was, if not innocent, at least relatively inoffensive and harmless. That was before a lot of money belonging to a Russian Mafioso disappeared from his safe and he was forced to go on the run — and on a serious crime spree — to save himself and his family. Along the way he acquired Moog Turner, an adept if somewhat reluctant hit man, and a debt to the mysterious Mr. Atibon who appeared at opportune moments with advice and, so he claimed, protection. Part of his advice was that, when people tried to push him around, Daniel become a “push-back man.” Along the way, Daniel also acquired a fairly impressive number of enemies, including members of a Mexican drug cartel and a group of seriously crazed bikers.
Now, in “Rock Island Rock,” the second book in the series, Daniel, his new girlfriend Vicki, and Moog Turner are peacefully enjoying their exile from the United States mainland on a beach in the Virgin Islands when one of their rock and roll friends is killed, and Mr. Atibon shows up to inform Daniel that the only way to pay his debt is to find out who killed him. And so begins another rock and roll romp through America, as Daniel and company search for the murderer, all the while trying to keep a step ahead of the FBI, the US Marshals, the Russkaya mafiya, and the psychotic bikers. But this time they have a new foe to contend with, the mysterious Haden Koschei, who, we begin to suspect, is the devil (or at least his agent) to whom Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul in return for being able to play the guitar.
Like “Blues Highway Blues,” “Rock Island Rock” is what we call in the English major business call a picaresque novel, in other words, one adventure after another. But, like the first book in the series, “Rock Island Rock” is also a serious investigation of violence, specifically when and why one resorts to it. So, yes, it’s violent. Very. If you want to examine violence in the setting of a novel, you have to show violence; you have to convey the physical and emotional cost of violence both to the victim and the perpetrator. Just talking about it would qualify as an essay. But this is the kind of over-the-top cartoon violence you see in, for example, the “Kill Bill” movies. How do we know it’s cartoon violence? Because it focuses on the preposterousness of the situation, such as when chopsticks become deadly weapons, or when a car creates a “sedan-size entrance wound” in the side of a building, or a series of events leading to an explosion is described as a “lethal Rube Goldberg contraption,” or when a man collides with a “limo like a bloodied, death-crazed three-hundred-pound sparrow.”
In “Rock Island Rock,” Daniel Erickson realizes that the steps he had to go to in the first book to protect his family have changed him. Not only has he become a “push-back man,” but he discovers that he’s actually come to miss the violence he discovered in himself. Apparently tranquility on the beach is not as relaxing as one might expect. So when his home is raided by the FBI and US Marshals, he responds with dispatch and efficiency, creating a new set of corpses (although, in all fairness, two of them are the work of the FBI itself). Unfortunately, when the FBI announces that the dangerous fugitive Daniel Erickson has been killed in the raid, only to discover that’s not what happened at all, it then finds that it’s time to make the announcement true and enlists a Russian Mafioso to make it so. And so the chase begins again, back to the mainland and through the various hot spots of rock and roll history, with Daniel providing a running commentary on the genealogy of rock and roll along the way.
Rife with rock and roll references, “Rock Island Rock” is gleeful romp of a book, full of wit, irony, double-crosses, and really bad ideas that probably seemed (as nearly all bad ideas do) like really good ideas at the time, like the FBI trying to double-cross the Russkaya mafiya. I’ve read the book twice in the process of reviewing it and will probably read it again.
Eyre Price is an excellent writer and the “Crossroads” series has all the marks of an American classic. His writing is fluid, witty, and smart, smart, smart. There are too many really good lines to quote in one review, and, besides, you should be able to discover some of them for yourself. So, here are a few examples of what it’s like to read an Eyre Price novel:
QUOTES:
“That’s when the car came through the window … The Chrysler 300 SRT8 was a black as the night it came busting out of, a rolling tsunami of shattered glass, splintered framing, and Detroit steel.”
“… all he really felt was the cold fury transforming him into the angel of death he’d been on that night in Vegas.”
“Eventually, perhaps inevitably, the dream segued into darker territories until the nightmare at its core was finally revealed.”
“What else could he do? What would any father do? Daniel Erickson did what he had to do. He became a killer.”
“A paradise you can’t leave is just another prison.”
“Preparedness. … That’s the extra step on the competition. It’s the tipping weight on the scale between failure and success. For those who put themselves out on fate’s pass line, it’s all too often the difference between life and death.”
“Supervisory Deputy Ken Barters burst into the room like a flash grenade of alpha male pheromones.”
“…the young man sitting faithfully by an assemblage of laptops and projectors like a cyber-age RCA dog.”
“he tugged at the waistband of his slacks, which was already straining like a New Orleans levee to contain the storm surge of his potbelly.”
“…but paradise is a front that a lot of people work very hard to maintain without ever enjoying it thems3elves. It’s an illusion sold to those who don’t want to give any thought to the fact that the sheets in their seaside bungalow need to be washed, that someone is sweating in the resorts’ kitchens to turns out those meals, or that those tropical drinks don’t pour themselves into those hollowed-out coconuts.”
“They had tried to set up their own gang … but soon found themselves stuck in the middle, with Bloods to the left of them and Crips to the right.” Actually, the book contains several plays on this line from Bob Dylan.
“He’d been cut, stabbed, shot at, beaten, and stomped. But it was love that had brought him closest to death’s ‘Open All Night’ doors.”
“… the most important lesson he ever taught me was that they make bullets in pairs. And the first time you use one, its partner, its soul mate, starts down a long twisting path of inescapable fate and unbelievable coincidences that’ll someday bring it right back at you. Killing a man is just a long suicide.”
“He had spent the day waiting for bad news, and the twelve-gauge was the best way he knew to prepare for its inevitable arrival.”
“Every fairy tale starts with ‘Once upon a time’ and ends with a ‘but.’”
“For all of the blood it has spilled in the name of revolution, Russia has never been able to rid itself of its royalty.
“Romanovs or Marxists. Stalinists or Khrushchev Communists. Whatever the particular, Moscow’s grand palaces and opulent great houses have always been occupied by those who held the power.
“Those magnificent structures still stand. The same standards apply. But today their tenants are venture capitalists and members of the russkaya mafiya — a distinction that is not always clear in Russian’s byzantine take on capitalism.”
“He cocked his head like a big, sad basset hound who can’t understand why his owner hasn’t gotten up off of the floor in the last couple days.”
“There may be no state-endorsed practice in the United States, but rock and roll is America’s religion. Every show, whether it’s the smallest dive bar in the baddest part of town or center stage at the Staples Center, is a spiritual revival meeting.”
Further reading
If you like “Blues Highway Blues” and “Rock Island Rock,” you might want to read Carl Hiaasen’s “Basket Case,” a story with a similar theme. And if you like “Basket Case,” you should definitely start with the earliest of Hiaasen’s solo novels, “Tourist Season,” “Double Whammy,” and “Native Tongue.” In the meantime, I’m waiting for Price’s next venture, “Pop Culture Pop.”
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