Blood Red

by Henry Horrock

Secluded in his Long Island Sound cottage, Manhattan attorney Alec Anton is enlisted by neighbor Lee Hastings for his help to find her missing son. Alec balks at first, but he is soon powerless to refuse her seductive ways--and powerless to disentangle himself from a case when the missing man turns up, his strangled corpse marked by a red carnation. Now, Alec must unravel a murder that leads to a conspiracy far bigger than anyone imagines.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786014318
• ISBN13: 9780786014316
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Superb mystery suspense thriller !

You are going to put this terrific thriller at the top of your list of great suspense books of the year. This complex legal - financial novel is about power politics and the drug trade. It is not a quick read, but you will find it difficult to set aside. The husband - wife team(Diane Henry and Nicholas Horrock) who put this mystery together in 1991 as "Blood Red, Snow White" crafted an exceptional book. It is only now getting the attention it deservesAlec Anton is powerful and powerless. He is a retired prosecuting attorney turned corporate lawyer. Working on defending a couple of crooks involved in high finance of international shipping, he is pulled away by the troubles of a neighbor whose son has disappeared. Was he in the drug business? His legal cases become entangled with romance, money, power, duplicity, sex, and lonliness as we learn Alex is as stupid as other men. The suspenseful cross currents frustrate and enrage, and pull you in.Characters are well developed. The story makes sense and unfolds only too rapidly whirling Anton into pools of corruption and evil. The good guys aren't. One shocking murder leads to more, and help isn't available from any of his normal sources. It has a good beginning, a well developed middle, and a horrifying ending that fits. There are plenty of good stories from judges, prosecutors, cops, bailiffs, custom agents, legal secretaries, narcs and crooks. You will learn some plausible tales about financing the cocaine business, including the terror and death that it brings.Don't start this book late in the day, or when you have stuff that needs to get done.

Great read, many twists and turns

For a book I picked up at the airport, Blood Red, exceeded my expectations. I did miss the fact that it was originally published in 1991, but that detracted very little from the story. The main character, attorney Alec Anton, was well done.If you like Grisham, you'll like Blood Red. As an extra, given that the author is a husband/wife team, makes one of the sub plots that much more intriguing.