We are unable to find iTunes on your computer. To download from the iTunes Store, get iTunes now. In Jitter Joint, award-winning journalist Howard Swindle delivers Jeb Quinlin, a Dallas homicide detective combating crime-and his own personal demons. So he hits his favorite bar for a last fifth of Wild Turkey and reluctantly enters detox. Once inside, Jeb is forced to confront his years of alcoholism with the help of Librium, hard-core therapy, and AA meetings. But someone is taking the words of the Big Book too far, as rehab patients begin to die mysteriously, each tagged with one of AA's Twelve Steps.
Now Jeb is on a sobering hunt for the Twelve-Step killer, a twisted psychopath who's taking the battle with the bottle to horrifying new heights Overview Music Video Charts. Opening the iTunes Store.
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He is a Detective for the Dallas Police Department. He is a heavy alcoholic and both his wife and Captain know it. One day, Jeb's captain tells him that he must go into D-Tox or he will lose his job and marriage.
One of the main conflicts in the novel, is the fact that Jeb will not go into D-Tox for his wife, but when his Captain demands it, he does, because his job is the most important thing in his life. Jeb decides to check into a D-Tox center, and before he is there very long, they find a dead body with the first step of the AA's Alcoholics Anonymous 12 steps tagged to the body.
In request of his Captain, Jeb is assigned to handle the job. The film is directed by Jim Gillespie and stars Sylvester Stallone to play the part of Jeb Quinlin, however in the film the characters name is Jake Malloy. Overall, "Jitter Joint" is a great read. If you are a fan of Dark Detective novels, you will enjoy this novel.
One person found this helpful. When I first came across this book I was excited because it pertained to alcoholism and recovery, a topic that I love to read and learn about. It also took place in Dallas, a town I'm very familiar with.
However, after diving right into the book, it quickly became somewhat of a letdown. While the premise is good and the author had a good idea, I feel that he didn't really do the story justice like he could have.
It's obvious from the beginning who the killer is in the murder investigation. Also, there is tons of backstory that really isn't needed to progress the story. I felt like I was in the middle of an ADHD episode when the author would go off on tangents about the characters.
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I found a few typo's as well, but nothing extremely huge. All in all, it was a quick read and it was okay, I just felt that the author could have made it a phenomenal story rather than mediocre. When his spouse threatened to divorce him if he failed to stop drinking, he grabbed a six-pack, thinking it is only a marriage. However, when Dallas police captain Bill Barrick forces homicide detective Jeb Quinlin to clean up his act or face the street, he reacts differently. Not wanting to lose the job he loves, Jeb enters the Cedar Ridge Clinic.
Instead of struggling with drying out, Jeb soon finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation when one of his cell mates is found dead.
Soon other classmates are also found murdered. Each corpse has graffiti written on them. The words come from the twelve steps of AA. Though suffering from his detox ordeal, Jeb knows he is the perfect undercover cop to ferret out a serial killer. The story line is loaded with action, and insight into alcoholism and detoxing.
Jeb is a weird but wonderful oddball even if his view on marriage seems a bit barbaric and the secondary characters augment the plot with eccentricities but Mr. Swindle deftly keeps from overwhelming the story. Readers will want more tales starring Jeb and associates.
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Homicide detective, Jeb Quinlin, is an alcoholic who doesn't care about much, except the bottle and his job. So when his boss gives him the choice of detox or you're fired, he packs his bags and heads off to the Cedar Ridge Hospital because, after all, it's the job that counts. Once there, he barely has time to start the program before one of the patients in the Substance Abuse Unit is murdered.