Reilly is unlike a lot of book cops, in that he is younger, mostly undamaged, has a family, and isn't stomping around in an old rain coat chewing on cigars and struggling with addiction of whatever variety. His partner is kind of a wise ass, and more of a sidekick. He doesn't figure much in the story, and is a little two-dimensional.
Khoury is usually writing about some old-timey, mysterious thing that has found its way down through time to now... and needs some solvin'!
Enter Sean Reilly.
This time Reilly is working on a mystery that seems to tie back to how Rasputin was able to ingratiate himself into the very laps of the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, when he was reportedly an unkempt scoundrel with little or no training, education or bathing, apparently. Khoury's take: perhaps its was a magical, modern technology, invented a hundred years ago, then forgotten.
Or was it? sounds legit
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