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This is the first Bruce DeSilva novel I have read. I want to read another one but I'm on the fence about which one to start. This novel was entertaining. The plot was clear and there was ample distractions that added humor and factual information. I hope the information was factual; in that DeSilva must have done a lot of research into the despicable acts of child pornography. There are people that film videos of killing children? If this is true then fiction can't compete with reality.
Liam Mulligan is his narrator. He is such a strong personality that you'd swear the person is real. And I guess he is real, because he's DeSilva's alter ego. I'm wondering how much is Liam and how much is Bruce. My two novel's deal with characters and I put myself in the character's circumstances.
I don't have much time to finish this but. I did like the book. I didn't like the ending all that much. I actually thought it could be stronger - better worded somehow.
Thank you Mr. DeSilva. You are an inspiration.


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Cliff Walk A Liam Mulligan Novel Bruce DeSilva 9780765332370 Books Reviews

I lived in the Chad Brown project (1946-51). Reading DeSilva is like time-tripping any way I slice it. His setting invokes childhood escapades and his prose conjures up my boyhood companions Spillane, Chandler, and Hammett. So far, I've read Rogue Island and Cliff Walk and I promise to treat myself to Providence Rag as soon as I finish writing my next novel.

The man's a pretty good wordsmith too... go figure!

James Ide,
The Nintoku Incident
Da Silva's writing is gritty and tough. Topic in this novel is timely but not easy. He drops you right into the middle of the story with an underdog reporter with integrity who is struggling against the flow of a declining newspaper business.
There's another writer out there with a very similar style, Michael Connelly. Don't need to say any more I believe, because if you like Harry Bosch you will like Liam Mulligan.
The print editions of America's big city newspapers may be fading tortuously, inextricably, toward their collective death, but investigative reporters are still out there on the beat. Undeterred by dwindling circulation figures and the ever-present threat of layoffs, they continue to tirelessly dig up the facts while upholding the public's sacred right to know those facts--however ungrateful or disinterested the public may be. No journalist is more determined, nor finer, than Bruce DeSilva's Liam Mulligan. Dogged and street-smart, the sardonic, wisecracking Mulligan is as accurate a depiction of an old-school, modern-day newspaperman as I've ever read, and DeSilva's Cliff Walk, like his Edgar Award-winning Rogue Island before it, is as entertaining and well-written a mystery as you'll find. This is a terrific novel grounded in compelling reality, crafted by a distinguished career newspaperman who knows the turf like the back of his coffee-splotched reporter's notepad. Action, poignancy, twists, turns and laugh out loud humor. Cliff Walk has got it all.
Sal Maniella, the Rhode Island porno magnate, takes a short walk off a tall cliff in Newport, and Ace Reporter L.S.A. Mulligan is conveniently on the scene.

All the major characters re-appear from Rogue Island (even a dead one). The prose is gorgeous. The plot keeps the pages (not to mention the blood) flowing. There's sensational reversal at the mid-point. The ending scenes (particularly the penultimate one with his old pal, Fiona) really pay off.

One can only hope that Bruce DeSilva quits his day jobs to write more of these. Mulligan is a great hero in the modern style, and fans will be craving more of him.
This is the second of DeSilva’s classic hard-boiled mysteries, featuring essentially the same cast of characters and setting that he introduced in Rogue Island reporter Liam Mulligan, the once-superb newspaper he writes for that’s now, in the days of dying newspapers, not yet quite ready to accept that its glory days are over, and the state of Rhode Island, a beautiful, ocean-side state drowning in corruption. What is new in Cliff Walk is the undertone of despair that comes through in DeSilva’s horrific description of the sexual exploitation of children. I found that I literally couldn’t put the book down—I was constantly checking my watch and saying to myself, “Okay, just 15 more minutes!!”
This one is 5 stars from the get-go….
I am from Pawtucket and have three vowels at the end of my name -- both major signifiers in Rhode Island -- and once upon a time was a reporter in those parts, and I find this book, like De Silva's previous "Rogue Island," a marvel. I am not particularly interested in genre mysteries. But "Cliff Walk" is worth reading just for the rich and sardonic portrayal of place and time and especially voice. Like "The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman (which I also highly recommend) it shows that the collapse of salaried journalism has one bright side. Like the end of a war, it has launched a new generation of fiction writers. Once these folk did their level best to get at truth every 24 hours. Now they are trying to get at it through narrative. I bow from the waist.
Second book in the series of a reporter working for a dying newspaper. No wife, no girl friend, no booze (per doctor's orders) it seems Mulligan's only vices/enjoyments in life are settling down to small wagers and an occasional banned cigar. But the story line is very interesting despite the awful subject matter (child abuse, rape and murder). The characters are well done, the writing is very good, and toward the end I thought maybe 4.5 stars. Then the ending disappointed a bit, not much of a climax. And the wiseguy quips started to wear on me, and I don't believe a Mulligan would visit a cemetery and talk to an old friend, a dead one of course.But then Mulligan does not cash in his free pass and I liked that about him. I also liked the backstory of layoffs, and witnessing a dying industry from the pov of people who really love their jobs and had nothing to do with its sad state. DeSilva's a good read, he'll never be a 5 in my books, but he's close enough that I'll probably read the next one.
This is the first Bruce DeSilva novel I have read. I want to read another one but I'm on the fence about which one to start. This novel was entertaining. The plot was clear and there was ample distractions that added humor and factual information. I hope the information was factual; in that DeSilva must have done a lot of research into the despicable acts of child pornography. There are people that film videos of killing children? If this is true then fiction can't compete with reality.
Liam Mulligan is his narrator. He is such a strong personality that you'd swear the person is real. And I guess he is real, because he's DeSilva's alter ego. I'm wondering how much is Liam and how much is Bruce. My two novel's deal with characters and I put myself in the character's circumstances.
I don't have much time to finish this but. I did like the book. I didn't like the ending all that much. I actually thought it could be stronger - better worded somehow.
Thank you Mr. DeSilva. You are an inspiration.