One Too Many Blows To The Head Ray Fokoli Series Book 1 edition by JB Kohl Eric Beetner Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Kansas City, 1939
In a world of fixed fights and mob influence, Ray Ward and his brother Rex are two of the only clean fighters in town. With Ray in the corner and Rex in the ring they are headed for the big time. Until that fateful night. Now Ray has a score to settle using a lifetime of lessons in how to fight back.
Dean Fokoli is a detective with a new partner, an alcoholic wife and a guilty conscience. At least the boxer on the radio who just got beat to a pulp won't end up in his homicide file. But when the dregs of the crooked fight world start turning up dead, Fokoli is on the hunt for a killer. The chase will take him to the underbelly of the Kansas City night and hopefully keep him one step ahead of his past.
A razor-edged story of revenge, redemption and what happens when you confront the ghosts of the past.
“One Too Many Blows to the Head feels like a long-lost pulp you find in a favorite bookstore. A delicious mix of classic hardboiled grit and the heart-heavy world of film noir, it’s a one-sitting read that sends you back to a lost time of fight halls, Chicago boys and last chances.”
—Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me and Queenpin
“A powerful tale of vengeance, rife with pounding action and colorful, complex characters. One Too Many Blows To The Head is a first round knock-out!”
– Stephen Jay Schwartz, LA Times best selling author of Boulevard and Beat
"The prose is hardboiled and lean, and there's plenty of violence. There's a surprise or two along the way, and you'll want to know what happens to Fokoli and Ray. They're deeply flawed, but Beetner and Kohl keep them human, which is quite an accomplishment when you consider the circumstances."
– Bill Crider, author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series
"The writing is crisp, the characters finely drawn. Ray's motivation to avenge his brother's death, murder really, may seem to be simple, but in actuality is deeply complex. One Too Many Blows To the Head is quite remarkable in how it takes a relatively simple story and develops an intricate, compelling tale of two men on a mission to identify who killed Rex Ward . . . but also on a search for their own.”
–Mysterious Reviews (FOUR STARS)
“Boxing and noir once went hand in glove, but you don't see many boxing novels anymore, and that's a shame. Here's one that dredges up all the blood and spit and sweat and money of the fight game, and wraps it around a tough noir storyline full of revenge and dark secrets. Kohl and Beetner get it exactly right.”
– Steve Brewer, author of the Bubba Mabry series
"One Too Many Blows to the Head is a novel set in the fight world of Kansas City 1939 and it's everything you love about classic film noir only bound and printed."
– Hardboiled Wonderland
One Too Many Blows To The Head Ray Fokoli Series Book 1 edition by JB Kohl Eric Beetner Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
“One Two Many Blows to the Head” by Beetner and Kohl takes on similar themes to Beetner’s earlier novelettes in the Fight Card series, “A Mouth Full of Blood” and “Split Decision.” However, this is a longer, more complex work that delves deeper into the characters.Set in 1939 around Kansas City boxing, mob control, and murder, it is part boxing tale, part detective story, and is as noir-ish and as pulpy as anything ever written. Make no bones about it. This book is excellent. If you like old-time boxing tales, this is your ticket. If you read hardboiled detective fiction, this is your ticket as well. From cover to cover, this tale takes the reader on a journey back in time to the late 30’s to Kansas City to the troubled lives of two men whose paths are destined to cross.
One, a boxing manager, who managed his own brother, and watched his own brother get beaten to a bloody pulp and die in the ring, a death that never should’ve happened. But, it did, in a corrupt, mob-controlled sport where the money changing hands on bets is more important than a man’s life. Tormented by what happened and his inability to do anything that can bring his brother back, Ray becomes a man on the run.
His narrative alternates with that of Detective Fokoli, who has his own demons to deal with, including an alcoholic wife, the mystery of what happened to his partner, and a new partner, who might not be tough enough to deal with what life has to offer them. He’s on the trail of whoever killed a boxing manager, one who used to sing to the police and knew just about everything going down.
This tale is rich, complex, filled with characters with long history. The prose flows quickly despite the fact that more than one author contributed to the story. It is a great read for anyone who loves old pulp fiction and the dark, gloomy places in the city. Impossible really to say enough good things about this one. It is a rich vein of pure gold.
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One Too Many Blows To The Head Ray Fokoli Series Book 1 edition by JB Kohl Eric Beetner Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
If you are a fan of noir, boxing or just plain old good novels, you ought to check this out. The way the story flows seamlessly between the two main characters, it is hard to believe One Too Many Blows to the Head was written by to authors. At the same time, the unique perspective the authors bring their respective characters adds authenticity and draws you into the shady underworld of 1939 Kansas City. Once I picked up the book, I could hardly put it down.
A sad and violent tale of the family life of poor people on the other side of the tracks
And the disrepair in their existence
I did enjoy this book; however it was depressing in parts, very violent in parts. It was very descriptive of the Chicago boxing era of long ago. If you don't like blood and guts, don't read this book.
And very well written and entertaining.
Done by two authors, you cannot find the seams, no matter how hard you try, so well done it is.
Great novel
For lovers of hard-boiled noir, this is it. Gritty, vicious, intense and powerful like a right to the jaw - I loved this book.
The authors alternated chapters, each voicing one of the two protagonists. The difference in authorial style adds to the unique perspective of the main characters. The story is engaging with a very nice twist at the end. Having just finished Shutter Island with its, in my opinion, very poor ending, OTMBTTH has a much more satisfying and believable yet unexpected closure. I hope the pairing of Kohl and Beetner continues and I look forward to future development of the two main characters.
Dave.
But followed to the letter! I did not know how I'd feel about a book about boxing, but I was intrigued from the get go!! Ray's little brother was all he had left in his family and thanks to someone who wanted boxer Rex out of the way for fixed fights in the ring, he was left alone...alone to go after the justice Rex deserved!
Fokoli had a past he wasn't proud of that seemed to catching up with him and hot on the trail of a killer.
I could feel their pain and anger. JB and Eric made them real to me and gave me a very unexpected ending! I can't wait to read Borrowed Trouble, the next in the Ray and Fokoli Series!
“One Two Many Blows to the Head” by Beetner and Kohl takes on similar themes to Beetner’s earlier novelettes in the Fight Card series, “A Mouth Full of Blood” and “Split Decision.” However, this is a longer, more complex work that delves deeper into the characters.
Set in 1939 around Kansas City boxing, mob control, and murder, it is part boxing tale, part detective story, and is as noir-ish and as pulpy as anything ever written. Make no bones about it. This book is excellent. If you like old-time boxing tales, this is your ticket. If you read hardboiled detective fiction, this is your ticket as well. From cover to cover, this tale takes the reader on a journey back in time to the late 30’s to Kansas City to the troubled lives of two men whose paths are destined to cross.
One, a boxing manager, who managed his own brother, and watched his own brother get beaten to a bloody pulp and die in the ring, a death that never should’ve happened. But, it did, in a corrupt, mob-controlled sport where the money changing hands on bets is more important than a man’s life. Tormented by what happened and his inability to do anything that can bring his brother back, Ray becomes a man on the run.
His narrative alternates with that of Detective Fokoli, who has his own demons to deal with, including an alcoholic wife, the mystery of what happened to his partner, and a new partner, who might not be tough enough to deal with what life has to offer them. He’s on the trail of whoever killed a boxing manager, one who used to sing to the police and knew just about everything going down.
This tale is rich, complex, filled with characters with long history. The prose flows quickly despite the fact that more than one author contributed to the story. It is a great read for anyone who loves old pulp fiction and the dark, gloomy places in the city. Impossible really to say enough good things about this one. It is a rich vein of pure gold.
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