Ed Kovacs
Autor de Storm Damage
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Obras de Ed Kovacs
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 62
- Popularidad
- #271,094
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 11
- Idiomas
- 1
Cliff St James is on his last shift as a New Orleans police officer just as Hurricane Katrina is about to hit the Crescent City hard. He goes on one last call to a well- known bar, where the owner has apparently been shot and robbed. There’s no time to call the medical examiner or the CSI team; all first-responders are ordered back to headquarters in an effort to keep them as safe as possible in the face of the storm’s wrath. Months later, a now-retired Cliff is asked by the dead man’s daughter to investigate. She wants answers and her father had always told her that St James was a good guy, the only trustworthy cop he knew.
There is a kernel of a great story here. But Kovacs who, according to the book jacket, has a background in intelligence that sounds suspiciously like a former CIA agent, seems intent on bringing in every possible conspiracy, counter-conspiracy, subterfuge and secret relationship that ever graced the pages of a crime or espionage novel. The plot gets so convoluted that Cliff (and the reader) completely forgets the purpose of his investigation and instead goes after numerous drug dealers, gang-bangers, corrupt public servants, and highly-connected “businessmen” (i.e. crime bosses). Only in the last twenty pages does he go back to the main purpose of his investigation and manages to conveniently solve the case with nary a clue or foreshadowing anywhere in the rest of the book.
Kovacs does have some skill in writing a page turner. The plot moves quickly, and there are enough scenes where the hero is in a dangerous situation to add drama and suspense. But he also tends to be repetitive. More than once he described the Mardi Gras revelers as celebrating “countless cocktail parties, brunches, high teas, coffee klatches with ubiquitous king cakes, rehearsals, banquets and dinners” using almost the exact same litany of events.
It was a fast read, but not a particularly good one.
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