City of Rose, Rob Hart
City of Rose, Rob Hart
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City of Rose

Author: Rob Hart

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 6 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/28/2017

Categories: Fiction, Crime

Synopsis

As an amateur PI with a bent moral compass, Ash McKenna is good at finding people—but not at staying out of trouble. Between his own violent tendencies, the shadow cast by his father’s death, and a self-destructive revenge quest, he made a mess of his life in NYC. Figuring it was time for a change of scenery Ash relocated to Portland, taking a job as a bouncer in a vegan strip club. And he hasn’t had to hit anyone in six months.So when one of the club’s dancers asks Ash for help finding her daughter, he declines, content to keep the darkness in his past. But soon Ash is held at gunpoint by a man in a chicken mask, and told to keep away from the girls. Unfortunately Ash isn’t good at following directions either.As Ash navigates an unfamiliar city, he finds himself embroiled in a labyrinthine plot involving a ruthless drug cartel and a scandal that could reach one of the most powerful men in Portland. Ash is dead set on finding the missing girl, but realizes that in order to deliver her safely he may have to cross the one line he promised himself he never would.

About Rob Hart

Rob Hart is the author of four acclaimed previous Ash McKenna novels: NEW YORKED, CITY OF ROSE, SOUTH VILLAGE, and THE WOMAN FROM PRAGUE. His short stories have appeared in publications like Shotgun Honey, Thuglit, Needle, Helix Literary Magazine, and Joyland. He has received both a Derringer Award nomination and honorable mention in The Best American Mystery Stories 2015. His non-fiction articles have been featured at LitReactor, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Good Men Project, Birth.Movies.Death., the Powell's bookstore blog, and Nailed. He lives in New York City. Find him online at @robwhart and www.robwhart.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Benoit on February 04, 2016

I'll say this: the first fifty page of this novel or so exploded in my face like a stick of TNT. Jesus, Rob Hart can write. Better than you most likely. Better than me too. His action scenes are lean and mean and seamlessly flowing into one another. The book slows down considerably afterwards and be......more

Goodreads review by J.D. on January 17, 2016

I liked Rob Hart's NEW YORKED a lot. I like this one even better. Ashley "Ash" McKenna, Hart's troubled knight-errant in a cheap straw cowboy hat, is a great character. In this installment, he's out of his native New York and definitely out of his element as he tries to leave behind his violent past......more

Goodreads review by Dave on January 09, 2016

A lot of authors struggle when they get out of their setting comfort zone. Hart's NEW YORKED was such a perfect picture of the Big Apple, that when I saw CITY OF ROSE was set in Portland, I wondered how Hart would handle changing locales. The answer? Perfectly. Hart brings back his sorta PI Ash McKen......more

Goodreads review by Nik on March 07, 2016

I really enjoyed NEW YORKED and had high expectations for this book. It surpassed them. CITY OF ROSE has everything that made NEW YORKED a fantastic read, but Hart stepped up his game in a big way. The plot is more focused and writing more refined, but still retains that off-kilter worldview that mad......more

Goodreads review by Suz on January 30, 2018

In Rob Hart's followup to NEW YORKED, Ash McKenna leaves the Big Apple to escape his troubles. He longs to become more than the blunt instrument that he believes himself to be. He finds work at a vegan strip club with a double entendre for a name: "Naturals." One of the strippers asks him to find he......more

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