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SUSPENSE MAGAZINE SELECTS SHEDROW AS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE YEAR. From rolling pastures in Lexington, KY to darkened alleyways in Newark, NJ, from Manhattan's posh 21 Club to a rare and puzzling landfill in Eastern Kentucky, and from Saratoga Springs, NY to a little island of St. Lucia, Shedrow portrays a collision of characters from many anomalous worlds. High multitude and a racing elite, medical and veterinary specialists, host figures, and Kentucky mountain folk turn caught in this unaccompanied turn on a medical thriller. Dr. Anthony Gianni, a distinguished Manhattan surgeon, becomes concerned in a racing partnership as a diversion from a abounding surgical use and an bum marriage. The fad builds when a partnership acquires Chiefly Endeavor, a two-year-old colt with a breeding, a spirit, and adequate early racing success to validate for a Kentucky Derby. When a new partner with an unpalatable credentials appears and a breeder's calamity becomes real, Dr. Gianni and a dedicated veterinarian contingency confront orderly crime and solve a formidable poser that threatens to destroy both of their careers, and presumably a good understanding more. WINNER, NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #82484 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-06-22
- Released on: 2011-06-22
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In DeLuke's muted debut, successful Manhattan surgeon Anthony Gianni teams adult with a new business partner, mafiosi Chester Pawlak. Their earnest competition horse, Chiefly Endeavor, dies underneath puzzling circumstances, and Gianni realizes he's in over his head. With a immature colt passed and a multimillion-dollar word process on a line, everybody from Gianni to veterinarian Steven Highet becomes a suspect. But when a Mafia comes calling, Highet and Gianni contingency pierce fast to strengthen their families and expose a law about Chiefly Endeavor's death. DeLuke takes readers from farming Kentucky by ritzy Manhattan to a lowest hospitals of St. Lucia, demonstrating poignant believe of medicine and equine racing along a way. However, his characters are mostly stereotypical and simply recognized—the heartless gangster, a mercenary wife, a ominous hillbilly. While DeLuke's poetry is plain and fast paced, a miss of account abyss precludes readers from enchanting with a story and will many expected leave them feeling vaguely dissatisfied.
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From a Inside Flap
"I know zero about racer racing, though Shedrow hold me from commencement to finish and done me wish to learn more. Dean DeLuke is a smashing talent, with a physician's attraction and knowledge, and a writer's apt hold with story and language. I am gratified and unapproachable to acquire Dean DeLuke to a family of doctor-writers, and Shedrow to a ranks of razor sharp, fast-paced new novels. Shedrow is a good read--intriguing and exciting...this book moves!"
--Michael Palmer, NY Times best-selling author of The Last Surgeon and 14 other medical thrillers
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"A clever debut. DeLuke paints a clear expel of heroes and villains that leaves we guessing about a outcome and wanting more. Shedrow is one to review and DeLuke is a new author to watch."
--Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of Bodily Harm, Wrongful Death, The Jury Master, Damage Control and Cyanide Canary.
"DeLuke's out-of-the gate, spare-no-prisoners description of equine racing, vets, racing chosen and slippery underworld mafia forms leaps over anything being published in a genre today. From a opening pages you'll be vibrating on a corner of your chair while this thrill-ride of a entrance has we chomping during a bit for more. I'm peaceful to gamble a debt on a trifecta that DeLuke's subsequent dual efforts will be only a dictatorial as a first. Not a win, place and show. But a win, win, win!"
--Vincent Zandri, author of Moonlight Falls and As Catch Can
International Thriller Awards row decider for 2010
"A superb whodunit, with characters wrapped in a unaccompanied enlightenment that is racer racing."
--Michael Veitch, comparison territory author for The Saratogian
"...A galloping array of twists and turns oozing with page-turning danger...this horseracing thriller is a heart pulsation read."
--Amy Wallen, bestselling author of Moon Pies and Movie Stars
"Tense from a initial page, Shedrow is best thriller. Dean DeLuke is a master storyteller, and a reader is happily taken on a pedal-to-the-metal disturb ride."
--James Thayer, bestselling author of The Boxer & a Poet and eleven other critically acclaimed novels
"Dick Francis meets Robin Cook in a pages of this thriller."
--Mary Jane Howell, Director of Public Relations for Dogwood Stable, supporter of some-more than seventy stakes winners and leader of dual Eclipse Awards
"Right out of the gate, Shedrow draws we into a fascinating world of racer owners with shockingly opposite goals. DeLuke weaves a nifty story of ambition, dishonesty and revenge."
--Richard Rosenblatt, Associated Press Racing Writer
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4 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By St Choice Signsampson Presstko
A earnest racer dies underneath questionable resources in this densely plotted thriller by Dean De De Luke, a medical alloy and equine racing afficionado. Packed with characters effectively drawn with usually a few strokes, this thriller is an portentous debut. The medical aspects are not overdone, yet rather, they strengthen a credit of a executive character, Dr. Anthony Gianni, an unhappily married surgeon who loves a disturb of a race, yet who loves a horses more. Gianni is in over his conduct after a host figure joins him in tenure of a immature and gifted Chiefly Endeavor. The pacing is a hard, quick competition to a finish as startling tract twists raze on a landscape. De Luke's work is suggestive of Jeff Abbott whose protagonists are injured yet decent group tossed into a universe of astonishing and intolerable evil. The final few pages are quite important as dual prime group weigh their past priorities and their hopes to spin things around. The author strongly hints that there will be a array rising from Shedrow, and that's good news, yet it is hoped a author will take book dual from a breakneck gait to a appreciative canter.
2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
By Gloria Feit
First things first: A "shedrow" is "a quarrel of a dozen or so particular [horse] stalls confronting a walkway." That tidbit known, we would imagine, by those informed with equine farms was usually one of many picked adult while enthralled in this entrance novel by Dean DeLuke who, like his protagonist, Dr. Anthony Gianni, combines tenure of racer horses with life as a alloy with an considerable c.v.: a specialty in verbal and maxillofacial medicine [including cosmetic surgery], also carrying finished a army in a sanatorium in England as good as proffer work as a medical missionary.
Dr. Gianni has usually recently come to find both assent and fad during a racetrack as a book opens: ". . . of late he had deserted a seascapes in preference of a training track. Once inside those gates [in Saratoga Springs, New York], he felt as yet he were a million miles from a dispatch of Manhattan and a frenzy of a large city puncture room." He is changed to squeeze a share of a tenure of a two-year-old equine that quite captivates him.
There is most here of both aspects of Dr. Gianni's life, both in his sanatorium surgeries and proffer work in a lowest area of a tiny Caribbean island nation, as good as of horseracing and a seamier aspects of a universe where a life, health and genocide of pretentious animals can meant millions of dollars won or lost. The reader is taken to places as anomalous as New York City, encountering crime bosses in Newark, New Jersey and all that that implies, and equine farms in Lexington, Kentucky, as good as racetracks around a country. When a mafia intervenes, things spin ugly, and threats are done opposite a tellurian and animal inhabitants of a book. The novel is well-written and suspenseful, and is gratifying in terms of both a medical thriller and a excitement, and infrequently a dangers, fundamental in horseracing.
Mr. DeLuke's essay has been called a multiple of Dick Francis and Robin Cook, something with that we would have to agree. The layer once ragged by Mr. Francis might indeed shortly have a new owner. Recommended.
0 of 0 people found a following examination helpful.
By Sharon Miner
Shedrow by Dean M. DeLuke is about a remarkable genocide of a successful racing Thoroughbred, Chiefly Endeavor, and a New York surgeon, Dr. Anthony Gianni, who tries to solve a mystery. He solicits a assistance of a friend, Dr. Steven Highet, who is a veterinarian, and together with other friends they confront hoodlums and domestic bigwigs in a accumulation of settings.
I enjoyed a sum of a racing setting, a colorful characters and a turn and turns of a plot.
I usually didn't know because some of a medical procedures had to be explained in fact when they had zero to do with a story, generally a scenes in St. Lucia.
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