Line of Sight

By: James Queally

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

All favors come with a cost, and after using what little favors he has in the Newark PD to get his private investigator's license, former crime reporter Russell Avery finds himself paying.

He spends his days reluctantly keeping sideways cops out of the crosshairs of the Internal Affairs department. Until Keyonna Jackson, a social justice activist, presents him with a troubling video: a made-for-YouTube cell phone snippet chronicling the same kind of questionable use of force that had set New York City, Ferguson, and Cleveland on fire in recent years. The same use of force that he's been covering up for Newark PD.

Now, the young black man who filmed this video is dead, and the more questions Russell asks, the less his cop buddies like him. For the first time in his life, Russell finds himself on the wrong side of the guys with the badges and guns. When details of the shooting become public - and a city with race riots in its DNA flirts with the idea of letting history repeat itself - Russell finds himself allying with street activists and gang members as he races to put together the biggest story of his life...before the city he needs to tell it to burns down around him.

©2020 James Queally (P)2020 Tantor

Excellent Thriller Novel, Great Listen

Fantastic thriller novel from a debuting author. You can clearly tell that the author has got a background in the subject matter, as it manages to balance realism and excitement better than many other books in the genre.

Highly recommend this one. Get it and dive in.

Fast-paced and authentic

This was a fun, gripping debut centered in Newark, NJ. I’m forward to what comes next from Queally.

Not bad, but not great

I grab a lot of daily deals and sale items to give them a try. This one was fine, which is better than most of the sale books I've listened to recently. Sadly I waited two weeks from listening to write this review, and now I hardly remember the book. That is an indication it wasn't great, but I would remember if it was terrible and it wasn't. So it was just okay - something to listen to if you don't have anything waiting.

Not overly impressed

I'm not exactly sure why, but I just didn't enjoy this one all that much. The narrator was ok.