::AMAZON REVIEWS::

I Enjoyed this Book
I kind of have a left field sense of humor, I found the Darryl parolee character to be most amuzing, his crack addiction and how he talks about "You dont know about me and my Mentality" it was just very funny to me. Seems a few arent to crazy about the book and had to put it down, for me it was the opposite. I laghed pretty hard at times.

Love This Audio Edition
I had read this book in paperback and loved it. When I found out someone had done the book on audio I had to hear it and it was even better than the written copy good job Blackstone !!

Very slow
Slow Motion RiotI started this book over a week ago and I am going to give up on page #87.This novel is very slow developing .I read 1 or 2 books per week but could not get interested in this book.I hate to give up on a book,but after nearly 100 pages you should look forward to picking the book up and continuing reading.This book does not do it for me

Slow Motion is right, it almost moved backwards.
Supposed to be a well written novel about crime in the Big Apple and it's supposed to be a fast paced book about the relationship between a parole officer and his parolee and the tension in the city. I didn't feel any tension, the only thing I felt was boredom.

It was about (petty) crime by a small gang of thugs in New York City, but it wasn't well written and it was extremely slow moving, the title should have been "Slow Motion Crime Novel That Never Gets Anywhere".

If you're looking for a novel on crime, I'm sure you can find better reading material. This book flat out sucked and I feel that my money was wasted. Maybe your opinion would be different, but I kind of doubt it.

Gloomy and Real
This novel is not just the story of the idealist probation officer Steven Baum versus the sociopath crack addict and drug dealer Darryl King but a story of a city (New York) where the melting pot society is divided by races, greed, social classes, poverty, corruption and absence of moral values. Most than a "slow motion riot", the author picture a city sat on a time bomb where the criminality, violence and corruption are keep at bay or ignored with some "legal" methods without any intention of erradicate it, where minorities lost hope in the system and are induced to criminal activities and delinquency because of unemployment, low education rates, poverty, low salaries, dependency of social aid and segregation. A very explicit message for those who still dream with a more equalitarian society and for those who already lost hope in society and are paying the consequences of that cruel reality.