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Wilmington, Delaware is one of those cities that feels more like a small town. Neighbors know one another, and businesses cater to the needs of the citizenry. But what happens when the local car salesman suffers one lost sale too many, when one more customer decides to buy from the competition because the price is too high, interest rates aren't friendly, or that shade of blue just won't work? In J. Gregory Smith's electrifying thriller, Final Price , Shamus Ryan's frustration works like a thorn under his skin until psychotic urges take over and he commits murder--serial murders, in fact--his victims chosen from prospective clients who dared to walk away. With Smith's chilling scenes of massacre, readers are pulled into the vortex of a warped mind, one man justifying heinous acts, and two detectives running a race against time, trying to solve seemingly random killings. Paul Chang, a Chinese-American homicide detective, is struggling to understand why these murders are taking place. Assisted by his neurotic partner, Nelson Rogers, Chang goes after the killer with logic, tenacity, and no small measure of fear.
Written from the perspectives of Detective Chang and Shamus Ryan, readers quickly find themselves seeing the world in unique--and often disturbing--ways they never expected. With dark humor and gritty suspense, Smith has crafted a refreshing and surprising thriller.
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The opening chapter of this energetic debut is told from the perspective of a Wilmington, Delaware, Honda salesman as he madly and gleefully robs, torments, and ultimately kills an elderly Vietnamese couple in their neighborhood grocery. He's enraged because they bought their Honda from another dealership. The body count quickly rises, and as it does, the salesman becomes more sadistic, and we learn how he got so crazy. Paul Chang, the Chinese American cop pursuing the deranged car salesman, is a former NYPD detective who left in disgrace and is now a Delaware State Police detective. Smith alternates points of view from the killer to Chang, as we hear Chang's backstory and learn of his reliance on meditation and visualization to rein in the Dragon, i.e., his own capacity for uncontrolled rage. Chang's former NYPD partner, a burned-out but spookily insightful investigator, is another memorable character. Toss in some Delaware politics and a broken-down Wilmington newspaper columnist hoping to return to the Big Apple, and you have a brisk, hard-to-put-down crime novel.--Gaughan, Thomas Copyright 2010 Booklist
