Robbed Blind

Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Book 13

By: Gerry Boyle

Narrated by: Michael A. Smith, Emmelle Baribeau, Fern A, Gerry Boyle

The end is coming...and fast.

Aging investigative reporter Jack McMorrow is tired and finding it harder and harder to keep faith in a society with seemingly no rules except “don’t get caught.” In Robbed Blind, Jack’s world is turned upside down with cops protecting weed shops, militias on the march, podcasting replacing newspapers, and his pre-teen daughter dancing on TikTok. Do the old ways still make sense?

Jack struggles with his present and works to bring his battle-honed reporting skills to bear for a final story he knows may never be written—risking his life to ensure that in this case of good vs. evil, good won’t go down without a fight. But in the 13th and penultimate novel featuring author Gerry Boyle’s signature character, one question looms larger than ever—will Jack McMorrow survive to fight another day?

©2022 Gerry Boyle (P)2023 Michael A Smith

Appropriate Title

I’ve been a Boyle fan for years, until this book. Don’t keep reading unless you want a spoiler alert.

First, way too much flippant use of Christianity (in this case, Catholicism and destruction of sacred relics) as part of the storyline. Second, the book ends with TO BE CONTINUED? Are you kidding me?!

Everyone is entitled to a mulligan…and as far as I’m concerned, this is Boyle’s one mulligan because I’ve enjoyed his previous books very much. But as far as this book goes, I feel like I’m the one who got Robbed Blind.