City on the Edge Audiobook

Quotes

• “Narrator Jonathan Davis’s strong narration helps create a believable setting for this combination coming-of-age story and adventure tale…Davis does a sterling job bringing the lead characters to life, particularly as Graham finds that typical youthful scrapes have much bigger consequences in this new and sometimes dangerous land.”

  — Novel Suspects (audio review)

• “Unfolds with cool understatement and entertaining period details and builds to a satisfying climax.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “A deeply felt coming-of-age novel set against a background of powerful authenticity. This is not to be missed.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• This stand-alone follow-up to Swinson's Frank Marr mysteries—most recently Trigger (2019)—unfolds with cool understatement and entertaining period details (prepare for an onslaught of Jethro Tull) and builds to a satisfying climax.”  —Kirkus

• Swinson offers the reader a deeply felt coming-of-age novel set against a background of powerful authenticity. This is not to be missed.”    —Publishers Weekly

• Streetwise.

  — The New York Times Book Review

• With ripped-from-the-headlines intensity....Swinson sustains the velocity of the drama and ingeniously gets at the power dynamic of personal relationships with nuance and generosity toward broken people in his messy world of ambiguous boundaries.

  — The National Book Review

• Within the first couple of pages, David Swinson pulls off a masterly piece of characterization: he creates a damaged, damned protagonist who no sane person would want to get close to, and then he grabs you by the collar and hauls you into Frank Marr's mind so fast and so thoroughly that none of that matters. The writing throws sparks, and the ferocious plot peels back layer after layer of Frank's character as we--and he--find out how much of his humanity is still left.

  — Tana French, author of The Trespasser

• Frank Marr prowls Washington like a creature from a different age: hard-knuckled, hard-drinking, equal parts loyalty, craving, determination, and regret. But in Trigger, David Swinson's detailed, glittering, vicious DC is up-to-the-minute. Never one to bend a rule when he can smash it instead, Marr leads us straight back into the wreckage he left in The Second Girl and Crime Song. It's a thrill to watch him pick up the pieces.

  — Bill Beverly, Edgar Award-winning author of Dodgers

• Chock full of pace and purpose, Trigger lays out hard-hustle D.C. in all its gritty shades of gray without ever once sneering at them. It's a brave novel, one with no easy outs, and an ending that feels both raw and true.

  — Ryan Gattis, author of Safe

• George Pelecanos fans will welcome Swinson's gritty third novel featuring PI Frank Marr. . . . Swinson, a former police officer, writes with authority and honesty, giving readers a timely, informed look at the mean streets from an insider's perspective.

  — Publishers Weekly

• Frank remains a fascinating, deeply flawed protagonist. . . . He remains a hard-boiled hero well worth our attention.

  — Booklist