Beetlebomb

<p><strong>Tom Cahill thinks the two voices on the harassing phone calls he's been receiving are actually one person. But they are indeed different predators: Eddie Branagan telling him what he's going to do to his daughter Laura; Phil LaPorta painting a picture of how great a man Tom a newspaper columnist really is. Because the novel cuts back and forth between otherwise total strangers suspense is rendered all the more palpable; and the place Bay Ridge Brooklyn shows its many sides in and out of our collective American past. Beetlebomb is a pan through mundane time and place written in opposition to the otherwise unspoken sources of human shame and brutality.</strong></p>