The Corruptions

by Vincent Zandri

Overview

When two cons doing several respective back to back life sentences for murder make a daring, if not Hollywood style escape from the Dannemora Maximum Security Prison in Upstate, New York, Jack Marconi PI receives a personal invitation from the Governor of New York State to track the murderers down, and deliver them personally to the front door of the Governor’s Mansion on Eagle Street. But what Marconi and his side-kick, Blood, don’t yet realize, is that something more insidious than a simple prison break has occurred in the small town of Dannemora. Because in the course of tracking the criminals down, the two gumshoes will also expose the Crypt, an insidious operation taking place down deep inside the depths of the 160 year old prison. What kind operation is it? Something so evil it will reduce the tough-as-nails Marconi to tears.

From bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes a riveting crime novel in the acclaimed mystery series that fans of Michael Connelly, Charlie Huston, Robert B. Parker will devour. The Corruptions is sure to keep you up all night.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943818372
Publisher:	Polis Books
Publication date:	01/31/2017
Series:	Jack Marconi
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Winner of both the 2015 PWA Shamus Award and the 2015 ITW Thriller Award for Best Original Paperback Novel, Vincent Zandri is The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 20 novels including The Remains, Moonlight Weeps, Everything Burns, and Orchard Grove. He is also the author of numerous Amazon bestselling digital shorts, Pathological, True Stories and Moonlight Mafia among them. Harlan Coben has described The Innocent (formerly As Catch Can) as "...gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting," while the New York Post called it "Sensational...Masterful...Brilliant!"

Zandri's list of domestic publishers include Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer and Polis Books, while his foreign publisher is Meme Publishers of Milan and Paris. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, Zandri's work is translated in the Dutch, Russian, French, Italian, and Japanese. Recently, Zandri was the subject of a major feature by The New York Times. He has also made appearances on Bloomberg TV and FOX news. In December 2014, Suspense Magazine named Zandri's, The Shroud Key, as one of the Best Books of 2014.

A freelance photo-journalist and the author of the popular "lit blog," The Vincent Zandri Vox, Zandri has written for Living Ready Magazine, RT, New York Newsday, Hudson Valley Magazine, The Times Union (Albany), Game & Fish Magazine, and many more. He lives in New York and Florence, Italy. Find him online at VincentZandri.com or on Twitter at @VincentZandri.

Editorial Reviews

11/14/2016
In Zandri’s gritty fourth Jack Marconi thriller (after 2015’s The Guilty), New York’s governor, Leon Valente, asks the prison warden turned PI to capture two self-proclaimed psychopaths and convicted cop-killers who have escaped from Clinton Maximum Security Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. Valente wants the fugitives alive, before the state troopers or the FBI can get them. Marconi enlists the aid of his trusty sidekick, Black, once a pro-football player and former inmate at the prison over which Marconi presided. After a few nasty run-ins with state trooper Vincent D’Amico and some more amiable encounters with Sheriff Bridgette Hylton, Marconi begins to think there’s something more going on than just two cons who wanted to jump the prison walls. The camaraderie and knockabout verbal style between Marconi and Black make their scenes together thoroughly enjoyable and create a welcome relief from the violence and decadence that they uncover as they make their way through a tangled web of corruption, perversion, and greed. Agent: Chip MacGregor, MacGregory Literary. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"Gritty...The camaraderie and knockabout verbal style between Marconi and Black make their scenes together thoroughly enjoyable and create a welcome relief from the violence and decadence that they uncover as they make their way through a tangled web of corruption, perversion, and greed." —Publishers Weekly

"Jack and Blood make a good team (expect plenty of witty banter), and the story is well constructed, with a nice—if deeply unsettling—plot twist near the end." —Booklist

Praise for the novels of Vincent Zandri

"A riveting story..oh, what a story it is: grisly, surprising, and page-turningly suspenseful. A terrific old-school
thriller." —Booklist (starred review) on Orchard Grove

"Captures readers’ attention from the opening scene...creates a story that, much like the Forresters' obsession with Lana, is hard to tear away from once a reader is hooked."
—BookPage on Orchard Grove

"ORCHARD GROVE is a classic slice of raw pulp noir, with all the traditional juicy ingredients: a dangerous woman, a loutish husband, and a sap to come between them."
—William Landay, New York Times bestselling author of DEFENDING JACOB

“ORCHARD GROVE is tightly crafted, smart, disturbing, elegantly complex thriller. It's utterly riveting. I dare you to start it and not keep reading.”
—M.J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author of THE REINCARNATIONIST

"Zandri is a heck of a storyteller. You won’t want to stop reading just to see what happens next, and what doesn’t. ORCHARD GROVE is wild. It has elements of DOUBLE INDEMNITY and Body Heat, and things you’ve never encountered before...it’s doubtful you’ll find a more entertaining ride."
—Bookreporter

"Riveting...(a) chilling tale of obsessive love." —Publishers Weekly

"There is a great deal of tension in this book, keeping the reader engaged and moving quickly through the pages...Zandri does his best work in creating tension and moving the plot forward at a blistering pace."
—Reviewing The Evidence

"Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting." —Harlan Coben on THE INNOCENT

"Zandri demonstrates an uncanny knack for exposition, introducing new characters and narrative possibilities with the confidence of an old pro...Zandri does a superb job creating interlocking puzzle pieces." —New York Post

"Readers will be held captive by prose that pounds as steadily as an elevated pulse...Vincent Zandri nails readers attention." —Boston Herald

"The action never wanes." —Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal

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