- Hardcover: 362 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins; First Edition edition (Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060191333
- ISBN-13: 978-0060191337
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,682,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A crackerjack thriller...satisfying."-- "Kirkus Reviews""Readers will be hanging on to theedge of their seats until the final page."-- "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel""[A] thoroughly engaging page-turner...Logan has perfected his penchant for delivering a surprise punch."-- "Minneapolis Star-Tribune""An explosive thriller with plenty of action, edge-of-your-seat pacing, and an appealing hero."-- "Amazon.com Reviews""One of the best new thriller writers is back with a twisty offering involving bad cops, ex-wives, sleazy newspaper reporters and the witness-protection program...that leave[s] readers on the edge of their seats. If he were a boxer, he'd be a heavyweight, and definitely a contender."-- "Chicago Tribune"
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When former cop Phil Broker's naive ex-wife, Caren, blows the whistle on her feckless second husband, Keith Angland, a St. Paul cop making a cool $2 million moonlighting for the Chicago mob, she unwittingly signs her own death warrant. Unwisely for Caren, she not only shared her troubles with Broker, she also told Tom James, a reporter with fantasies of pulling off the perfect crime. Inspired by the $2 million payoff she entrusted to his safekeeping, Tom kills Caren in a brilliant frame-up that leaves her crooked cop-husband to take the fall.
Covering all the angles, Tom runs to the FBI -- "the Big Law" -- and wangles a new life in the Witness Protection Program. But Tom's perfect plan doesn't count on Broker. Hard-edged and relentless, Broker smells a rat and is determined to set things right. But to succeed, he's got to locate Tom -- a clever man with a new identity, a suitcase full of cash, and the Big Law on his side. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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The box came in the UPS morning delivery at the rear entrance of the Warren E. Burger Federal Building at the corner of Kellog and Robert, in downtown St. Paul. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
While the action was exciting, I found a lot about this book that I didn't like. First, I simply didn't find Broker to be a compelling protagonist. He just isn't that likable; he's uptight, unemotional (he barely related to his baby and his wife), and detached. Second, the transformation of James from hapless loser to what he becomes seemed a stretch. Third, and most important, I disliked Chuck Logan's style. One, I didn't like the herky-jerky, staccato sentence fragments. Two, there was a lot of clunky, unwieldy phraseology (duty "thudded through room after empty room"). Three, the grammar was odd-commas were omitted, periods were used where there should have been question marks, and commas were used where semicolons belong. My negative comments are obviously in the minority, but I just didn't like the style.
Format:Hardcover
The writer pulls you into the story. By his discription throughout the story it makes it seem as though you are there and can picture the environment discrmbled. If your are only able to read several chapters a week, in between the reads you will be able to retain the whole story when you return to it and you will return to it.
Format:Hardcover
You'll stay up to finish this one!
A page-turner thriller with multi-dimensional characters and great plot twists.
A page-turner thriller with multi-dimensional characters and great plot twists.
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