Hollowpoint, Rob Reuland
Hollowpoint, Rob Reuland
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Hollowpoint

Author: Rob Reuland

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

There was a time when Assistant District Attorney Andrew Giobberti pursued his job with vigor and a certain glee. He sent hundreds of perps upstate and commanded the respect of the tough Brooklyn cops whose investigations he steered. Now he mostly thinks about his next drink and the girl he can persuade to share it with him. A hand has reached into his chest and removed something that made the whole machine run. She was five years old, and her name was Opal. Over the course of one impossibly hot August, Gio's life comes apart. It's been a year since his daughter died, but the loss carves away at him still. A case much like others crosses his desk: young girl, dead from a gunshot wound, crackhead mother, very guilty looking boyfriend. Something in this ordinary if tawdry case uncovers a vast well of grief and rage in him, and it's unclear who will be the target of his urge to avenge a pointless death. His steely associate, Stacey - with whom he shares his bed but nothing more - watches with alarm as he lurches toward an act that could prove to be destruction or redemption. He's badly in need of one of them.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jack on October 06, 2024

3 Stars. The author, Robert Reuland, who is an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, writes with authenticity - overflowing and often sad. It's a scum world he deals with. The pressure to quickly dispense serious and impactful justice is constant. Reuland brings this point-of-view to 'Hollowpoint......more

Goodreads review by Mar on March 14, 2015

Nunca lo pude terminar.......more

Goodreads review by J on May 01, 2013

BEWARE OF SPOILERS. I DON'T HIDE OR PROMOTE MY REVIEWS. Author Rob Reuland, a senior assistant district attorney in Brooklyn (at least at time of writing this book) writes about a youngish assistant prosecutor in the Brooklyn's D.A. office. I've read that every novelist puts part of him- or herself in......more

Goodreads review by Alex on January 23, 2011

The first novel from the Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Hollowpoint is about the murder of a fourteen year-old girl in the slums of Brooklyn. The question is who is the killer? The case is left to be solved by the main character (also an assistant district attorney) Andy Giobberti. Though the......more

Goodreads review by Robert on May 08, 2021

(In the interest of full disclosure Reuland is a friend. ) A great story that transcend the police procedural/legal thriller genre. Reuland's hero/antihero, Andrew Giobberti, a prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York, is barely intact—under assault by terrible personal loss, guilt, and the everyday horrors......more