Blood Mud
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| Author | K. C. Constantine |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Mysterious Press of Warner Books |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 375 |
| ISBN | 0-89296-647-5 |
| OCLC | 39458968 |
| Preceded by | Brushback |
| Followed by | Grievance |
Blood Mud[1] is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1990s[2] Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).[3]
Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.[4]
The novel opens with Balzic again being lured out of his retirement with an offer: track down the missing guns from a local gun shop for an insurance company.[5]
It is the fifteenth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.[6]
This essay examines the communicative processes associated with organizational assimilation within blue‐collar work groups in a manufacturing company. The study hinges on a heretofore unidentified variation to traditional assimilation models, labeled as organizational osmosis.[7]
Sources for allogeneic stem cells for patients with haematological disorders lacking a histocompatible sibling donor include matched unrelated donor (MUD) and umbilical cord blood (UCB).[8]
Reception
A review by January Magazine calls the Blood Mud "Constantine's best yet," praising the complex story and rich dialogue.[9] Publishers Weekly comments on the "pitch-perfect dialogue", describing it as "beautifully developed and enigmatically resolved." [10]
References
- ^ "Blood Mud". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ^ "K.C. Constantine". Book Series in Order. 2017-10-09. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ^ "Fiction Book Review: Blood Mud by K. C. Constantine, Author Mysterious Press $23 (375p) ISBN 978-0-89296-647-9". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ "Blood Mud (A Mario Balzac Novel) in Fiction Fiction at Strand Books". www.strandbooks.com. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
- ^ www.publishersweekly.com https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-89296-647-9. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Blood Mud (Rocksburg, book 15) by K C Constantine". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ Gibson, Melissa K.; Papa, Michael J. (2000-02-01). "The mud, the blood, and the beer guys: Organizational osmosis in blue‐collar work groups". Journal of Applied Communication Research. 28 (1): 68–88. doi:10.1080/00909880009365554. ISSN 0090-9882.
- ^ Hamza, Nashaat S.; Lisgaris, Michelle; Yadavalli, Gopala; Nadeau, Laura; Fox, Robert; Fu, Pingfu; Lazarus, Hillard M.; Koc, Omer N.; Salata, Robert A. (2004). "Kinetics of myeloid and lymphocyte recovery and infectious complications after unrelated umbilical cord blood versus HLA-matched unrelated donor allogeneic transplantation in adults". British Journal of Haematology. 124 (4): 488–498. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04792.x. ISSN 1365-2141. PMID 14984500.
- ^ Anderson, Karen (May 1999). "Crimes of the Heart". January Magazine.
- ^ "Fiction Book Review: Blood Mud by K. C. Constantine, Author Mysterious Press $23 (375p) ISBN 978-0-89296-647-9". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
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