{"id":11979,"date":"2012-10-01T05:48:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T10:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11979"},"modified":"2012-09-30T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T10:38:12","slug":"book-report-the-big-heat-by-william-p-mcgivern-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/book-report-the-big-heat-by-william-p-mcgivern-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The Big Heat<\/i> by William P. McGivern (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743452704\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0743452704&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thebigheat.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743452704\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0743452704&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">This book<\/a> is the source for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0045555\/\" target=\"_blank\">1953 film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In it, a Philadelphia cop, not the smartest guy on the squad, but the straightest and the most methodical, is called to investigate the apparent suicide of a police clerk.  Ranking cops want it to be a suicide, but Bannion, the cop, thinks there might be more to it and is reluctant to give it up.  Eventually, he stirs up a mob hit that kills Bannion&#8217;s wife instead, and Bannion goes all in, giving up his career as a police detective to find and punish those corrupt city officials who make it all possible.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good bit of noir.  It&#8217;s third person, so it lacks the immediacy of the stuff that makes the latter half of the 20th century narration, but it makes up for it in spades.  Because I bought it in a detective book club edition, I expected less than I got.  Recommended.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0743452704&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is the source for the 1953 film. In it, a Philadelphia cop, not the smartest guy on the squad, but the straightest and the most methodical, is called to investigate the apparent suicide of a police clerk. Ranking cops want it to be a suicide, but Bannion, the cop, thinks there might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12010,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions\/12010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}