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From Norman Rockwell to Christo in one nightmarish swoop
Here Diehl tears into one of his pet peeves: real estate developers who ravage the land for profit. He has seen the devastation of their work on his own beloved St. Simons Island, Georgia. It is the subject that always brings out his soap box and he does it mighty justice in HOOLIGANS.

Jake Kilmer, of the Federal Racket Squad, is shocked when he returns to Dunetown after a 20-year absence. Here, "..a dark, romantic two-lane blacktop, an archway of magnolias dripping with Spanish moss, that meandered from Duneway to the sea..." has become "...a six-lane highway that slashed between an infinity of garish streetlights like a scar." The Norman Rockwell painting is now a Christo travesty in neon.

To worsen the pot, someone is diligently engaged in offing the local Mob. Then there's Kilmer's arch enemy, Turk Nance, and Kilmer's obsession with the woman he had loved and lost. As the story advances, interspersed with portions of a soldier's diary of Nam war experiences, tension mounts and the situation becomes ever more mysterious and dangerous.

If you've read any of William Diehl's books you know you've found another winner. Vivid prose and spirited characters intent on their mission pulls the reader into a riveting story that moves and twists faster than lightning between storm clouds. Saddle up a Diehl book and hang on -- you're in for the ride of your life.

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nonstop action could not put the book down
this book is no doubt set in my home town of savannah georgia. the author did a great bit of homework for this one. i feel it is fiction based on fact, going by my study of the history of this fair city.the personal side of this book makes you feel you are jake kilmer and you really feel for the guy it is an awesome book, but sometime the detailed names of the characters can confuse you that is its only weakness. if you can call attention to detail a weakness. all in all a fantastic easily read book

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A hard-boiled pulp fiction page-turner, but little more
This is a "guy's book," a first-person narrative by a hard-boiled, Bogart-esque Fed named Jake Kilmer as he follows a lonely and harrowing investigative pathway into the violence-spattered underworld in coastal Georgia. There are a lot of characters, a lot of dead bodies, a lot of "regrets about the past," a bit of social commentary about the privileges and power of the super rich, and even a dash of post-Viet Nam syndrome insanity thrown in for good measure. It's a quick summertime read, but really has no great literary merit.