Blood Mud

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]

Blood Mud
AuthorK. C. Constantine
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date
1999
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages375
ISBN0-89296-647-5
OCLC39458968
Preceded byBrushback 
Followed byGrievance 

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
  1. "Blood Mud". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  2. "K.C. Constantine". Book Series in Order. 2017-10-09. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  3. "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.
  4. "Blood Mud (A Mario Balzac Novel) in Fiction Fiction at Strand Books". www.strandbooks.com. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  5. www.publishersweekly.com https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-89296-647-9. Retrieved 2019-04-11. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. "Blood Mud (Rocksburg, book 15) by K C Constantine". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Anderson, Karen (May 1999). "Crimes of the Heart". January Magazine.
  10. "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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