Echo Bay edition by Richard Barre Literature Fiction eBooks
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1940 In driving rain, in darkness, fabled Lake Tahoe steamship Constance slips beneath the surface of Echo Bay. Present Shawn Rainey, once-hot Olympic skiing prospect, now living dead end, is thrown both spar and ultimatum—sell the dream of raising Constance to the town he fled, suspect in his popular brother’s drowning death, or lose his children to forces he himself unleashed.
A desperate Shawn accepts and runs head-on into his past; into hair-trigger ex-pal, Joe Don McCandless, who stands to gain a fortune from raising Constance. Into Catherine Mulvhill, who vows the ship her father built will sail again over her dead body. Into Arn Tennell, a lawman who banks his grudges until he can burn old debts. Into the citadels of old-lake money and power, secrets as deep and cold as Tahoe itself.
Shawn’s return comes under a darkening cloud of murder and deceit, hatred and betrayal, big money and bad blood. To head off the unthinkable and survive, Shawn must confront not only his own violent past, but battle those hell-bent on destroying him and those he loves.
Echo Bay, from Shamus Award-winning author Richard Barre, is a millrace of turning pages and ever-rippling tension in the suspense tradition of The Deep End.
“Richard Barre writes with lyricism, grace, and heart, and an authentic tough edge. He is among the very best crime fiction novelists working today.”—George Pelecanos, author of Soul Circus and Hell to Pay
“A Richard Barre novel is always cause for celebration, and this one is his best yet! Action, suspense, heartache, and some of the best writing in the business, Barre delivers once again. ECHO BAY is as good as it gets, from one of the best writers in crime fiction today”—Steve Hamilton, author of Blood is the Sky and North of Nowhere
“Richard Barre is a writer's writer, someone long prized by his peers, but he deserves the widest audience possible. In the same way that his characters are seduced and undone by their dreams, Barre's readers are lured into stories that we fear might break our hearts. But once Barre casts his spell, there is simply no turning back.”—Laura Lippman, author of Every Secret Thing and The Last Place.
Echo Bay edition by Richard Barre Literature Fiction eBooks
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Echo Bay edition by Richard Barre Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Trite set up made it impossible to maintain interest. Though I love his Hardesty stuff this left me cold.
Richard Barre's snappy dialogue and fractured sentences are reminiscent of noir classics. His novels captivate the reader from the first page. Barre brings a unique talent to all his work, and Echo Bay is no exception.
Once a championship skier, an accident cut Shawn Rainey's career short. Now he's down on his luck, and more or less coasting through life. A threat to take his children away is used against him as blackmail. With no other choice, he joins a scheme to raise a sunken ship. He sets off, determined to accomplish his mission and recover his two kids. But the past keeps leaping up, thwarting his efforts.
In Shawn's typical fashion, he simply rolls with the punches. Until he's had enough. When Shawn Rainey becomes proactive, watch out! He goes after the truth with unwavering persistence. If someone gets in his way, their choice is go along with him or pay a high price. With the cooperation of new and old friends, Shawn follows the clues through twists and turns.
Echo Bay is the story of people facing their pasts, warts and all, and looking for their futures. It is a page-turning novel of redemption.
After he blew out his knee on the mountain, Shawn Rainey's life and family circumstances descended nearly as fast as he'd been going in that fall. Years later he reluctantly returns to his family home near Echo Bay on Lake Tahoe. It's the scene of an escalating controversy between civic and business interests who want to raise a famous sixty-year old ship from the bottom in order to boost tourism, and the daughter of the owner who sank the ship in the first place.
Shawn's boss, a mean, mean-spirited public relations CEO puts the arm on his ex-partner who would rather be almost anywhere than back in his home town. There are still highschool buddies, or acquaintances who have varied feelings about Shawn. They include his old girlfriend, his father and the woman who is the principal resistance to the ship-raising project.
This is crime fiction at its best, multi-layered with plot circles within plots. It touches on family and community relations, past and present, prejudice, racism and greed. In spite of its complexities, author Richard Barre continues the high standards he established with the Wil Hardesty PI series, and maintains a clarity of purpose, a sense of where his characters are at all times. Piece by piece he lays out the actions Shawn and his supporters take to build the success of their project. Piece by piece he supplies more and more of the background that fuels the animosities and rising tension and violence. He reveals, as a magician might in drawing back a curtain, the stunning reasons why some people in the community are unalterably opposed to the project.
In the end, the final resolution of the puzzle is logical, sympathetic and honest. It does not shrink from shining a spotlight on past injustices and present-day dishonesty. Like all good fiction Echo Bay holds up a mirror to every reader and asks fundamental questions.
This is a powerful, cracking good read.
Master of Hard-boiled Dialogue
Shawn Rainey, ex-Olympic hopeful skier, is now a gimp-legged fixer who combines the skills of a slick-talker working the cameras, a paralegal who knows how to research opposition dirt and, when necessary, a thug that can drop you with a punch. He's been given one last chance (read Redemption) to regain partial custody of his children, by assisting in a shady deal being pushed by sleazy ex "business" associate, Terry Dahl, who now lives with Shawn's former wife. The deal involves the raising of the "Constance," which has been lying at the bottom of Lake Tahoe since 1940. The media (and money) frenzy surrounding this possible event has the allure of an inland "Titanic." But the "Constance" has secrets buried with her, and the 70-something year old daughter of the owner that scuttled the ship wants to keep it that way.
At its best, "Echo Bay" deals with the sins of the past and the need to let them go - or risk drowning in the bad mix of new sins and haunted memories. Thus, as a metaphor, "Echo Bay's" ship works as a fine McGuffin for all the intrigues to cluster around. But turning away from the past doesn't mean you can avoid confronting the truth - no matter how old, no matter how deeply buried. Rainey's diggings and conflicts reveal many a hidden skeleton, including a few from his own closet. Barre's use of dialogue is really what drives this story. It's tough and spare, often funny, but not in a smart-aleck Carl Hiasson way. The players here are all playing for keeps. For the most part it works. Up until the last 100 pages or so I thought I was reading something special, given the plot and the tough talk, "Echo Bay" seemed to have struck a balance, and was moving beyond genre, providing the kind of contemporary snapshot that penetrates, through its insights, the culture of a time and place. But for some reason "Echo Bay" never really establishes the tragic vision of, for example, Lehane's "Shutter Island," or Robert Stone's "Dog Soldiers."
By novel's end things get nicely arranged, loose ends are tied up, intriguing characters flatten out into types, and you're already thinking of what next to read. I can't help but feel this novel opened with higher stakes on the table. That said, Rainey is a great character and I would definitely read Barre again. His dialogue is every bit as good as Leonard at his best, and that in itself is reason enough to read on.
Another great Richard Barre book!
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