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All Cry Chaos

Leonard Rosen
Permanent Press (2011)
ISBN 9781579622220
Reviewed by Melissa Koltes for RebeccasReads (09/11)

Henri Poincare has everything, a successful career as an Interpol Agent, a beautiful and successful artist for a wife, a brilliant son, lovely grandchildren, a vineyard to retire to, a case to close. 

A brilliant mathematician is blown up by a bomb in his hotel room, while preparing for a presentation at a convention.  The explosion is so exact that only the one room is destroyed.  Who would want to kill a mathematician? 

Along the way, the reader learns of a war criminal sitting in the Hague, waiting for his trial.  This man ordered the mass murder of all the men and boys in the village just for being Muslim.  The horror that Henri sees when they discovered the mass grave is fierce and raw.  The criminal almost got away with it but Poincare chased him and ripped him out of the quaint life he had reinvented for himself and put him where he belonged. 

However, now that man wants revenge and Henri’s family is his main target.  Poincare is determined to protect his family.  But you can’t protect everyone all the time.  The aftermath leaves him a shell of his former self but hell bent on revenge. 

As he plots his moves he begins to find that all the lines in his life have intersected and in order to get any semblance of normalcy back he must figure out who killed the mathematician.  

"All Cry Chaos" is a non-stop, amazingly written book that will keep you on the edge of your seat.  The ending was original and clever. There were bits where the explanations got a bit difficult to follow but it was obvious these descriptions were necessary to allow the story to move on.

 I look forward to reading more stories from Leonard Rosen…he has a gift for storytelling.

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