Trigger, David Swinson
Trigger, David Swinson
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Trigger

Author: David Swinson

Narrator: Christopher Ryan Grant

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/12/2019

Synopsis

Forced to retire from the D. C. police, newly minted P.I. Frank Marr is recovering from rock bottom when a friend asks for help—and now, he must revisit the dark, drug-fueled world he left behind. Ostracized by his family after a botched case that led to the death of his baby cousin, Jeffrey, Frank was on a collision course with catastrophe. Now clean and clinging hard to sobriety, he's barely eking out a living as a private investigator for a defense attorney—who also happens to be his ex-girlfriend. Frank passes the time—and tests himself by robbing the houses of local dealers, taking their cash and flushing their drugs down the toilet. But when an old friend from his police days needs Frank's help to prove he didn't shoot an unarmed civilian, Frank is drawn back into the world of dirty cops and suspicious drug busts, running in the same circles that enabled his addiction those years ago. Never one to play by the rules, Frank recruits a young man he nearly executed years before. Together—a good man trying not to go bad and a bad man trying to do good—detective and criminal charge headfirst into the D.C. drug wars. Neither may make it out.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on April 17, 2019

Trigger by David Swinson is the third novel in the Frank Marr series. Frank Marr is a private investigator forced into early retirement out of the Washingon DC metro-police department for drug and alcohol abuse while working as a drug investigator. Familiar characters in the previous two novels reapp......more

Goodreads review by Aristotle on February 17, 2019

I'm stronger, but weakness is always trying to find a way in. -Frank Marr Demons They are those things that clutch at us, strangle us, force us to obey them. They control us with great delight, and finally they own us. Frank Marr has some mean, ugly, hungry demons after his soul. This is the books descri......more

Goodreads review by John on April 05, 2021

I really like David Swinson and his protagonist Frank Marr. This latest instalment is no exception as Frank tries to help a police friend who's been accused of a bad shooting. Excellent characterisation and dialogue ; this is an authentic story of street crime in Washington DC. Highly recommended an......more

Goodreads review by Larry on March 13, 2019

Frank Marr is a cop-turned-private investigator. The reason for his job transition was his cocaine addiction, which he has self-treated with heavy alcohol use since leaving the force. He lives on the edge between some kind of adherence to the law and outright criminality (ripping off drug dealers is......more

Goodreads review by Marian on March 10, 2019

A detective story that grabbed my attention from the first page. Couldn't put it down! And I was 7/8 of the way through it when I realized it was the third in a trilogy. That's how good David Swinson is. He made the third book in a trilogy a fantastic stand-alone, too! Now I have to read the other t......more

Quotes

"Streetwise."—The New York Times Book Review

"With ripped-from-the-headlines intensity,,,Swinson sustains the velocity of the drama and ingeniously gets at the power dynamic of personal relationships with nuance and generosity toward broken people in his messy world of ambiguous boundaries."
—The National Book Review

"Frank Marr prowls Washington like a creature from a different age: hard-knuckled, hard-drinking, equal parts loyalty, craving, determination, and regret. But in Trigger, David Swinson's detailed, glittering, vicious DC is up-to-the-minute. Never one to bend a rule when he can smash it instead, Marr leads us straight back into the wreckage he left in The Second Girl and Crime Song. It's a thrill to watch him pick up the pieces."—Bill Beverly, Edgar Award-winning author of Dodgers

"Chock full of pace and purpose, Trigger lays out hard-hustle D.C. in all its gritty shades of gray without ever once sneering at them. It's a brave novel, one with no easy outs, and an ending that feels both raw and true."—Ryan Gattis, author of Safe

"Frankie Marr, the ex-cop turned PI with a skewed sense of justice, situational ethics and a drug habit he kicked by turning to alcohol, is back. The ex-cop turned author, David Swinson, takes us on another pulse-pounding, stripped-down excursion into the badlands of the nation's capital. An old friend and colleague teeters on the brink of catastrophe and Frankie answers the call; his street wits, reckless courage, and pit bull tenacity racing ahead of glorious and soulful collapse. I missed you, Frankie, and I'm very happy to see you again."—Joe Ide, author of IQ

"George Pelecanos fans will welcome Swinson's gritty third novel featuring PI Frank Marr. . . . Swinson, a former police officer, writes with authority and honesty, giving readers a timely, informed look at the mean streets from an insider's perspective."—Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR DAVID SWINSON AND FRANK MARR:
"Swinson is one of the best dialogue hounds in the business."—The New York Times Book Review

"Within the first couple of pages, David Swinson pulls off a masterly piece of characterization: he creates a damaged, damned protagonist who no sane person would want to get close to, and then he grabs you by the collar and hauls you into Frank Marr's mind so fast and so thoroughly that none of that matters. The writing throws sparks, and the ferocious plot peels back layer after layer of Frank's character as we--and he--find out how much of his humanity is still left."—Tana French, author of The Trespasser

"Frank remains a fascinating, deeply flawed protagonist. . . . He remains a hard-boiled hero well worth our attention."—Booklist

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