Great thriller which kept me turning the pages well into the night. Great characters and plot. Highly recommend to others!!

I received this book from the publisher for an honest review.
The book takes place in New York City beginning in 1963 with a rookie beat cop. This was back when they still had them walking the beat as they say. Taking you through his first days and months on the job meeting the people, shop owners and then when trouble happens not having a radio but going to a call box calling in for assistance. Told to wait he does not.
You are then taken through the rest of the story through time and different characters that only add to the story. Along with the officers some waiting to make a difference and some dirty. The author gives you a look into the life of the ’80s and much of what it was like in New York and not the glitz side either. This is what makes this story tick along with the characters which only add to this story. This will keep you wanting you to turn to the next page until the end. A very good book.

Author Bill Mesce, Jr., has hit a home run with Median Gray. I am a retired assistant district attorney and it seemed to me as if he got everything right. There are bad cops and good cops, dumb cops and smart cops. Seeing things from the perspective of the young cop Ronnie and his older mentor Sid worked very well for me. In short, this is one exciting novel and I am thrilled to recommend it. (No, I don't know anyone connected with the book in any way!) Nonstop action, believable cop dialogue, and some really bad guys whom jou* (sic) might even like a little.
Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC. This is one of the best I have received.

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This was a nostalgic trip in time to 1980s crime an policing. I really liked the writing style, which suited the fast paced, hard nosed characters and plot. There was enough technical detail to make the book very plausible. Guly recommend for crime readers.

Tries Hard In Many Ways To Be Good But Didn’t Succeed For Me!

Without going into detail about Bill Mesce Jr’s latest book, I’ll just say that Median Gray takes place in the early 1980’s and essentially is about one NYPD detective at the end of his career planning to take one last chance to correct a 20-year injustice, and another cop at the beginning of his career who is intent on stopping him.

In Median Gray, Mesce not only attempts to tell an interesting mystery, he tries to do this by providing insights into how police investigations proceed, by creating well-developed “real life“ characters, by portraying a sense of what the gritty, mean streets of NYC were like and in having his characters speak in hard-boiled prose.

While I give the author credit for trying hard, the book did not create a very positive reading experience for me; and, thus, Median Gray is not a book I can recommend. I found Median Gray to be too slow-moving, thus at times causing me to skim through certain sections. Further, I found the characters to not being developed well enough and the dialog to not being realistic enough; resulting in my not caring much about what happens to them. Finally, by the time Median Gray generated some excitement, it was a case of “too little, too late” for me.