Adam
Sternbergh’s “Shovel Ready” is an enticing thriller set in the near future of a
garbageman, Spademan, turned hitman with a dark sense of humor. His job: get a
name. Find the name. Kill the name...simple right? But when he gets a phone
from a client for his next job things don’t seem to work seem to work out that
way. Set in New York City and parts of New Jersey after a “dirty bomb” was set
off, which left Times Square a radiation hot zone…”dead and rotting, beyond
resuscitation, and the rot spread out in circles from there.”
I ranked
this book a 4-stars. I loved the subtle dark comedy in this story. The fact
that the author never used quotations to define the characters’ dialogue was
confusing the first couple of pages, but in the end I actually enjoyed it,
making the dialogue between characters flow quickly back and fourth and kept
the story moving quickly too.
"I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this honest
review."
