IQ
An IQ Novel, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Sullivan Jones
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By:
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Joe Ide
About this listen
East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, OAPs are getting hoodwinked, children are missing. But word has spread: if you've got a case the police can't or won't touch, Isaiah Quintabe will help you out.
They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tyres or some homemade muffins. But now he needs a client who can pay. And the only way to that client is through a jive-talking low-life drug dealer he thought he'd left behind. Then there's the case itself. A drug-addled rap star surrounded by a crew of flunkies who believes his life is in danger, a hit man who even other hit men say is a lunatic, and a monster killer dog. If he solves this case, IQ can put right a mistake he made long ago. If he doesn't, it won't just be the hit man coming after him....
©2017 Joe Ide (P)2017 Hachette AudioCritic Reviews
"Ide successfully makes his detective's brilliance plausible in this gripping and moving debut." ( Publishers Weekly)
"One of the most original thrillers of the year.... [A] sometimes scary, often whimsical, off-the-wall delight.... It's a mad world that late-blooming Joe Ide has brought forth from his past, a spicy mix of urban horror, youthful striving and show-business absurdity. His IQ is an original and welcome creation." (Patrick Anderson, Washington Post)
"Wonderfully quirky.... Exhilarating language and [an] oddball cast.... A total laff-riot." (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review)
"Joe Ide. Remember that name.... Mystery aficionados will remember it as the breakout debut of a major new voice in the suspense genre." ( BookPage)
"A few things I love about this...[IQ is] rooted in his community in a way that his inspiration never was...IQ is a small story in the way the best of Conan Doyle's were.... It's a detective story that plays out very close to home, on the streets and corners that Ide (who grew up in South Central) knows best. And Isaiah fits into those streets like they were made for him. A consulting detective for a time and a place that needs one." (Jason Sheehan, NPR)
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- ELIZABETH
- 06-09-2018
Absorbing plot with interesting characters
IQ is an unusual private detective with an unusual accomplice. The plot develops nicely with flashbacks to IQ's early days. Spoiled a little by the pat ending but generally absorbing and excellently narrated by Sullivan Jones.
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- Sue
- 15-09-2017
A busy plot
I enjoyed the book but found it hard to sort out all the characters sometimes as it jumped from one to another
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- lucy brownlie
- 28-06-2024
the biggest pitbull
great narrator. story rattles along to the rhythm of a rap. comedy and compassion and an endearing hero.
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