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Cargando... King City (2011)por Lee Goldberg
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Police novel. Detective who exposes corruption gets exiled to worst part of city, by himself. He survives and turns things around. ( ) I liked this book because it was a lot of fun. Lee Goldberg is a tv writer, and the book seems quite visual because of his descriptive writing. The hero and the city are both down on their luck: the hero by choice for going to the feds about corruption in the city's Major Crimes Unit, and the neighborhood due to closed factories and the resulting poverty. Yet, with his unwavering efforts to do the right thing, the hero (Tom Wade), returns law and order to the crime-ridden area one step at a time, assisted by two rookies, using his unorthodox approach. My two favorites lines: "with the fall of the factories, the towers had gone from swanky to skanky" and the protagonist's "what's important is what you stand for and how strong you stand for it." Fast-moving story about a cop who brings down a whole group of corrupt cops and then is made to pay for his treachery by being assigned to an abandoned, crime-ridden area of the city with two rookie cops. He's someone who gives no quarter and decides to make the best of things, despite having lost everything in his personal life except his faith in his badge. The odds are basically insurmountable, but he surmounts them with lots of luck and real determination. OK. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Major Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption...turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he's exiled to patrol a beat in King City's deadliest neighborhood...with no back-up, no resources, and no hope of survival.Now Wade fights to tame the lawless, poverty-stricken wasteland...while investigating a string of brutal murders of young women. It's a case that takes him from the squalor of the inner-city to the manicured enclaves of the privileged, revealing the sordid and deadly ways the two worlds are intertwined...making his enemies even more determined to crush him.But for Tom Wade, backing down is never an option...even if it will cost him his life. It's one reason why bestselling author Janet Evanovich calls Wade "an unforgettable and deeply compelling character in the most original crime novel to come along in years." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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