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Setup Man, The: A Novel (2014)

by T.T. Monday(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1306474817 (ISBN13: 9781306474818)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Doubleday Books

review 1: Solid first novel (as far as I can tell) about a major-league relief pitcher with a sideline in detective work. Monday keeps the tone on the hardboiled side by making it clear that this is not Johnny Adcock's first case -- Johnny has been helping out fellow ball players for a while, so he has the experience and contacts typical of a private investigator. The baseball side of Johnny's life is the more interesting part of the book, though. Monday has a good eye for the routines and personalities of baseball, while the mystery plot is long on convolutions and short on sympathetic characters. It's also one of those books where a lot of people die in noisy car chases and gun battles, but the police are nowhere to be seen. The ending is competent and explains some events that st... morerained my suspension of disbelief earlier on, but if I come back for a sequel it will be to spend more time with Johnny, and not for the plot.
review 2: At a young age, John Adcock heard his father's advice to become a relief pitcher in major league baseball because the pay was great and the amount of time actually working for it was minimal. With so much time on his hands, Adcock has become an amateur investigator on behalf of fellow players who want him to follow their girlfriends and wives and solve other sundry problems. In this debut, Adcock is asked by teammate Frankie Hererra to find out who emailed him a pornographic video featuring the man's wife. A few days later his client is found dead at the base of a cliff in a fiery crash that also claimed the life of the player's female companion. With help from his former MLB mentor who now owns a restaurant and his beautiful girlfriend who speculates in venture capital opportunities, Adcok follows the case to his client's grieving widow and gets involved in the murder of a former ballplayer whose become a wealthy pornographer. The baseball lore is interesting and the protagonist's day job was enough to hook me into reading this novel. But considering the bruising Adcock takes throughout the book, and his advancing age, I don't think the character will be able to sustain his baseball career in any future entries. less

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