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The investigators / W.E.B. Griffin
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- ISBN: 0399143084
- Physical Description: 408 p.
- Publisher: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1997
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stonewall Library | FIC GRIFFIN (Text) | 0000061892 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #2 November 1997
In a just literary world, Griffin's turgid manuscripts of men and guns would molder in a basement corner unread and unlamented. But, inexplicably, they appear between hard covers and, in the past, have ascended the best-seller lists. Whatever the explanation for Griffin's popularity, enumerating the points of sheer badness of this particular script will deter neither its publication nor its likely success. However, consider a few: glaring breaks in continuity such as the appearance of telephone answering machines and GM Suburbans in a story set in April 1968; with the murder of Martin Luther King in the background of a story set in a big northeastern city, no allusion--even for atmospherics' sake--to riots that erupted following that crime; and the absurdity of having the hero address a soon-to-be-bedded woman as "fair maiden." The bare-bones plot sends Griffin's cast of Philadelphia's finest after two criminal groups: bad apples in the narcotics squad and animal-rights terrorists. The two investigations come together in the person of Matt Payne, detective. At a high-society party, Payne falls for Susan Reynolds, a pretty, naive do-gooder. While tracking the money trail of the corrupt cops, Payne wheedles out of Reynolds admissions about her connections with the bombers. Plain old police work then rolls up all the bad guys, clearing the stage for the return of Griffin's stick figures in the inevitable sequel. Recommended only to meet demand. ((Reviewed November 15, 1997)) Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1998 January
Book 7 of Griffin's "Badge of Honor" series continues the saga of the Philadelphia Police Department, focusing once again on the Special Operations unit. Detective Matt Payne is sent to Harrisburg to gather evidence against a narcotics unit that is suspected of stealing from the very people whom they have arrested. Payne is also working with the FBI in its attempt to locate several terrorists who, in 1968, blew up a scientific laboratory, killing 11 people. While walking in the footsteps of law-enforcement officers, Griffin gives a clear picture of what it is like to be a police officer, how police officers think, how politicians bring pressure to bear on their actions, and how the justice system works. Everything Griffin writes immediately goes on the best sellers lists, mainly because he tells such richly detailed stories using a huge, engaging cast of characters who by this time will have become old friends to many readers?and this book is no exception.?Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio Copyright 1998 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1997 November #4
The seventh in Griffin's cop-oriented Badge of Honor series (after The Murderers), this fast-paced, clever thriller puts wealthy, wisecracking Philadelphia detective Matt Payne in hot water up to his neck. As assistant to the head of the Special Operations Division of the Philly PD, young Matt, the department's golden boy, has never walked a beat, but the media love him for his quick-trigger work in dropping two murderers with a couple of snappy headshots. Matt's new case begins when a cop's widow fingers some dirty doings in a highly successful narc unit and, at the same time, the narcs earn the wrath of Philly's mob boss, Vincenzo Savarese (a grandfather who has not forgotten the importance of a woman's honor). In a side plot, Matt is assisting the FBI in its pursuit of an animal-rights terrorist group. "Assisting" means, in part, charming beautiful social worker and suspected terrorist Susan Reynolds; before he knows it, Matt is tragically lovestruck and up to his handcuffs in stolen money and felony charges that could put him in jail. As usual in Griffin's police procedurals, there's more going on here than in a three-ringed circus. Even readers wearied by Griffin's other, rather plodding series (Brotherhood of War, about soldiers, and The Corps, about marines) will enjoy this intricate, witty, tightly wrapped tale of cops on the job. (Jan.) Copyright 1998 Publishers Weekly Reviews