A Belly Full Of Bullets
The second book in the Eddie Sillers offbeat private detective crime thriller trilogy
Novel reviewed by C. Herman in July 2008
Eddie Sillers talks to inanimate objects, but then again, you would too if you had no one you could trust. A Belly Full of Bullets is the page turning story of an offbeat private investigator despised by the police and adored by women because of his ability to solve the unsolvable.
When a harmless old lady slips into Eddie’s office to engage him in helping her grandson, Eddie’s soft side gets the best of him. Little does he know that this old lady will drag him through a muddy investigation concerning some of the Big City’s most grandiose crooks.
With the help of his older but not quite wiser partner, Kevin and their overly brilliant secretary Trixie, Eddie plunges himself into the underworld of crooked cops, horse betting, sideways monks, and rabbit thieves as he investigates a maze of murders and their link to the caves under Central Park.
Davis’ driving voice is constant throughout the story; drawing detailed imagery of a big city and the corruption that has seeped through its streets under the eyes of the never present policemen. His main character’s unique internal monologue is characterized by courage, bravado and relentless self-doubt, and tinged with razor sharp humor.
Readers will enjoy the saucy images of women who will bare anything to get what they want as well as high action scenes with well-choreographed shoot outs, all meticulously crafted by Davis’ imaginative pen.