FEBRUARY 2012 - AudioFile
This twenty-year-old police procedural sparkles. Because of Adam Verner's brisk narration, you hardly notice how dated a book can become. The mentions of old cars, music, and sporting events are slightly distracting but not enough that you can’t concentrate on the story: A murder mystery is solved through random finds by several different cops at the same precinct; eventually they put all the pieces together. Verner treats listeners to a host of cops who are real characters. His tongue-in-cheek delivery should not be missed. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
From the Publisher
"Let us dispel forever the notion that Mr. Wambaugh is only a former cop who happens to write books. . . . This would be tantamount to saying that Jack London was first and foremost a sailor. Mr. Wambaugh is, in fact, a writer of genuine power, style, wit and originality.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Wambaugh’s cops, like the soldiers in Catch-22, are men and women in a frenzy, zany grotesques made that way by the outrageous nature of the things they deal with.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“[Wambaugh is] a good writer who becomes better with each successive book.” —The Detroit News
“Wambaugh sidesteps all the clichés.” —The Baltimore Sun
FEBRUARY 2012 - AudioFile
This twenty-year-old police procedural sparkles. Because of Adam Verner's brisk narration, you hardly notice how dated a book can become. The mentions of old cars, music, and sporting events are slightly distracting but not enough that you can’t concentrate on the story: A murder mystery is solved through random finds by several different cops at the same precinct; eventually they put all the pieces together. Verner treats listeners to a host of cops who are real characters. His tongue-in-cheek delivery should not be missed. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
