Knuckleduster

I have two basic criteria I use to judge a book: 1. does it grab me and pull me into the story, and 2. how long does it take for that to happen.First, I was drawn into the story by the bottom of the first page - a very good sign.Second, I couldn't stop reading it. The story line grabs you and pulls you along to discover what happens next.Andrew Post has created a fascinating character in Brody. His brutal violence repels me and at the same time I cheer him on to finish the bastard off that he's beating; then I find out he's an artist, and blind to boot! I'm intrigued.Andrew paints compelling pictures with words. The futuristic setting he has created is very real. All-in-all, Knuckleduster is a great read!

Top notch story of an ex- soldier hunting the person or persons that killed his friend's daughter. Once on the scent , Brody stops at nothing in his hunt, and being blind won't even slow him down.

From the first page you're hooked. Looking forward to more offerings by the author. If you are looking for something different, I would definitely recommend.

KnuckledusterAndrew PostMedallion, Feb 1 2013, $14.95ISBN: 9781605424934Minneapolis war veteran Brody “Knuckleduster” Calhoun met battered Marcy a cancer victim at a community center where both slept on cots. Her boyfriend Jonah beat her up so Knuckleduster enters a bar to kick his butt. After the vigilante for hire takes care of business with his knuckleduster brass knuckles, Detective Nathan Pierce arrives to take him to the station for busting up a man’s face for the eighteenth time; both know the violence against women has been halved since he began to mete out an eye for an eye justice. Knuckleduster also needs to recharge the battery in his carotene contact lenses that enable him to see after the Molotov cocktail attack blinded him in Cairo.Thorp Ashbury, who served with Calhoun in Egypt as peacekeepers a decade ago, invites Knuckleduster to his Illinois farm. When he arrives, Thorp tells him his kid sister Nectar enlisted over his objection. She went to Fort Reagan in Chicago for pre Basic class work training, but when Knuckleduster goes to talk to her he finds she has vanished. As the two vets search for the missing sibling, they begin to uncover a lethal mind-bending corporate conspiracy that leaves Knuckleduster wondering if he has become as crazy as his friend is.This entertaining futuristic noir sets the tone with little interwoven activities like the electronic monetary card to exchange credits. The vigilante protagonist is a violent Daredevil butt-kicker who defends the downtrodden and paying customers (someone has to fund his expensive contacts). The exhilarating investigation grips readers with a pulp fiction excitement as Knuckleduster battles some nasty adversaries while thinking his paranoid friend is insane as there is no corporate conspiracy to wire wounded warriors.Harriet Klausner

Andrew Post's Knuckleduster is a futuristic neo-noir detective novel featuring a hardheaded war vet turned fist-for-hire turned reluctant detective who is such a compelling character, the reader is left with the hope the author has plans for a sequel or, better yet, a series of Brody Calhoun novels. Having said that, Knuckleduster on its own is one satisfying page-turner. From the get-go, the reader is sucked into the dark and scary, yet very believable futuristic work that Post paints with adept strokes so palpable, you can feel the cold and grey world in which the characters live and breath on every single page. This apocalyptic world is peppered with impending conventions such as jigsaw cards (the ultimate ID/debit card), print on demand newspaper kiosks, nationwide wireless coverage, and automated diners with cheeky robot waitresses. All that is backdrop, though, for a cast of well-drawn characters and the addictive must-find-the-girl-before-it's-too-late storyline that punches you in the gut from the opening chapter before delivering a never-saw-it-coming upper-cut that propels you headfirst into the pages. Even during the hectic week I was having, I could not stop myself from reading 'just one more chapter,' and (damn you, Post) the last one-hundred pages of Knuckleduster are of the impossible-to-not-read-in-one-sitting variety. Consider yourself warned.

Very interesting read, the characters were believable and interesting to get to know.This is one of the best free books I've read in some time. The editing was fairly good and didnt drive me crazy like some.