A New and Different Kind of Pain edition by Daniel Vlasaty Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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David works for Anthony Benedetti, the meanest dude on the north side of Chicago. David’s his muscle. David does what Anthony tells him to do. So when he’s told to go pick up a briefcase containing half a million dollars from a sleazy bar owner, David doesn’t think anything of it. But when he loses that briefcase, he knows he’s really fucked up. Because Anthony Benedetti is not the kind of guy you want to be on the wrong side of. And now David’s got 24 hours to find the money, stay alive, and keep his very pregnant wife out of harm’s way.
"After reading this I can honestly say I may have already read the best book I will read this year. It is killer with no filler type of good." -- Derrick Horodyski, Out of the Gutter
A New and Different Kind of Pain edition by Daniel Vlasaty Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Daniel Vlasaty's A New and Different Kind of Pain is a masterpiece of lean, mean, noir - distilled and undiluted. David, the protagonist, is all muscle. He's not one to be messed with. When his boss, Ant, sends him to pick up a briefcase full of money, you know things are not going to go well. And things go worse than you can imagine. Having lost the money, David finds himself on a desperate, bloody, no-win battle to save himself and those he loves. This story begins with violence, is driven by violence, and no punches are pulled along the way. This story is as perfectly stripped down as anything I've ever read. Every sentence is a punch to the gut, every page a kick to the teeth. This book will leave bruises. Once you've read the first sentence, you will not be able to put it down. I truly hope Danile Vlasaty has a dozen more of these in the works. To me, this book is the epitome of what All Due Respect Books does better than anyone else. No pretentious, flowery prose. No social commentary. Nothing to endear you to the character. Just lean, mean, gritty crime fiction that leaves you lying in the gutter before you even know what hit you. This is easily the most satisfying thing I've read so far this year.Product details
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A New and Different Kind of Pain edition by Daniel Vlasaty Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I have previous form with Daniel Vlasaty. I absolutely loved Only Bones when I read it last year. When this one popped up in my inbox from Mike Monson at All Due Respect Books, I was like a dog with two doodahs.
Only Bones was a hard act to follow, though Vlasaty put ticks in pretty much all the boxes here.
Chicago setting and a criminal gang with an established leader - Anthony Benedetti and our underling David treated like family. Benedetti is long suspected of “sorting” David’s abusive and violent father out many years previously when a traumatised and battered David turned up on their doorstep. His father was never seen again and David’s been on the inside ever since. Now with a job as a collector and enforcer and treated like a son. With these guys there’s nothing more important than family is there?
Err……. yeah there is MONEY!
David’s collected a suitcase full of cash for Anthony and he’s been jumped and relieved of his boss’s ill-gotten gains. The father figure isn’t impressed and David has 24 hours to recover the cash back and get himself back into Anthony’s good graces.
I liked the dynamics of the relationships in this - David trying to protect his family, the difficulties with his wife’s sister, the honesty between David and his pregnant wife Allison, the souring of things between Anthony and David, the scene with David and Anthony’s wife.
I enjoyed being in the main character’s head. David’s not totally likeable. We see him dish out a violent lesson to a bully with a calm indifference and brutal efficiency. We admire and respect him for his love towards his wife and his unborn child and we hope that things will turn out well. No harm in a bit of hope, no matter how tentative!
Great story and characters, fast-paced, a fair bit of brutality, but some memorable dialogue and verbal jousting also. And some lines that stay with you…..
One thing I learned growing up with my old man was how to take a punch. So there’s that. Not everything was a waste. I guess.
Excellent – a tale well told in under 80 pages!
4.5 from 5
Read in February, 2017
Published – 2017
Page count – 79
Source – review copy from All Due Respect Books (cheers Mike)
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A quick, nasty little noir gem. I loved it.
If you like dark, down in the dirt noir with sharp dialog and memorable characters, you'll love this gem. It's a fierce, freaky-fast read and you'll likely burn through it in one sitting. The pace is fast and the action is non-stop. No fluff, or filler here. Just full bore, entertaining fiction with Chicago ad a backdrop. Grab it up and hold on tight.
Writing about hired muscle is difficult without devolving into clichés or creating rather large, thick clunky cardboard cutouts that have no meaning. Enforcers do not have a bad rap, it’s a limited rap dull-witted, strong, slow, and not so much brave, just stalwart.
Daniel Vlasaty gets the tough guy right in his latest book, A New and Different Kind of Pain (All Due Respect Books). Vlasaty introduces us to David, the pseudo-adopted son of Anthony ‘Ant’ Benedetti, a north side Chicago gangster, and now his hired hand. We get glimpses of Vlastay’s crime soldier as a child surviving an abusive father, building a relationship with the Benedetti family, and becoming a husband and father as well. As A New and Different Kind of Pain progresses, this background becomes the novel’s drive, rather than David’s criminal activities — don’t worry, they do have something to say about what’s going on.
When we first meet David, he is in Cicero, Illinois which smells “of wet *** and death and sewage hanging heavy in the air”. On the job for Ant, David is sent to deal with a chronic wife beater and given David’s past this visit will not go well for the abuser. Ant’s instructions are clear, don’t kill him, “not unless you absolutely have to. Just **** the mother****** up.” With this job completed, David’s services are immediately needed by Ant again, so he heads to Wrigleyville hoping to this job done before the night is over.
"The dude’s pretty big. But he has the body of a person who spends a handful of hours a week at the gym. Not the body of a guy who gets in fights for a living.
And I’m too tired and stressed out to deal with his ******** bull****.
I just want to go home.
I just want to be anywhere other than a ******** hipster bar in a yuppie neighborhood at two in the ******** morning.
I just want this mother****** to give me what I came here to get so I can get the **** out of his place.
He gives me a little smile. I’m just waiting for him to reach out and twirl his mustache like the ******** douche I know he is."
Like Vlasaty’s Only Bones, we are thrust into the fringes of Chicago, a place where most fear to tread. Even though Vlasaty’s staccato-like style of Only Bones is gone in A New and Different Kind of Pain, the writing is still direct and urgent. Vlasaty engages us by pressing David forward through the streets of Chicago in a compact, one-sitting book. It isn’t till the reader puts down the book that we get to catch our breath and say, “Well, ****.”
Daniel Vlasaty's A New and Different Kind of Pain is a masterpiece of lean, mean, noir - distilled and undiluted. David, the protagonist, is all muscle. He's not one to be messed with. When his boss, Ant, sends him to pick up a briefcase full of money, you know things are not going to go well. And things go worse than you can imagine. Having lost the money, David finds himself on a desperate, bloody, no-win battle to save himself and those he loves. This story begins with violence, is driven by violence, and no punches are pulled along the way. This story is as perfectly stripped down as anything I've ever read. Every sentence is a punch to the gut, every page a kick to the teeth. This book will leave bruises. Once you've read the first sentence, you will not be able to put it down. I truly hope Danile Vlasaty has a dozen more of these in the works. To me, this book is the epitome of what All Due Respect Books does better than anyone else. No pretentious, flowery prose. No social commentary. Nothing to endear you to the character. Just lean, mean, gritty crime fiction that leaves you lying in the gutter before you even know what hit you. This is easily the most satisfying thing I've read so far this year.
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