17 used & new from £0.01
See All Buying Options
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
 
Cold Pursuit
 
 
Share your own customer images
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

Cold Pursuit (Paperback)

by Jefferson Parker (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.


2 new from £0.99 15 used from £0.01
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Paperback (New Ed) 80 used & new from £0.01

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

California Girl

California Girl

by Jefferson Parker
3.5 out of 5 stars (2)  £8.99
The Blue Hour (Merci Rayborn Novels)

The Blue Hour (Merci Rayborn Novels)

by T. Jefferson Parker
3.8 out of 5 stars (12)  £16.13
Storm Runners

Storm Runners

by T.Jefferson Parker
T is for Trespass

T is for Trespass

by Sue Grafton
4.3 out of 5 stars (23)  £3.83
L.A. Outlaws

L.A. Outlaws

by T. Jefferson Parker
4.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £4.87
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (6 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007149344
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007149346
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,274,284 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk

Why isn't T Jefferson Parker as famous as, say, James Patterson or Robert B Parker? He's that good, and in some ways better. In Cold Pursuit, his 11th novel, San Diego homicide cop Tom McMichael finds himself investigating the bludgeoning to death of Pete Braga, a prominent city patriarch who was also a blood enemy of the McMichael family. It's a complex case fraught with political and economic pressures, ugly family history, police corruption and multiple red herrings, made more complex by McMichael's romantic attraction to a key suspect.

Parker's writing is a pleasure from the first sentence to the last: intelligent, often quietly poetic, cliché-free, and as crisp and dry as a good Pinot Gris. Here is the book's opening paragraph, which accomplishes several scene-setting tasks while pleasing both ear and brain:

That night the wind came hard off the Pacific, an El Nino event that would blow three inches of rain onto the roofs of San Diego. It was the first big storm of the season, early January and overdue. Palm fronds lifted with a plastic hiss and slapped against the windows of McMichael's apartment. The digitized chirp of his phone sounded ridiculous against the steady wind outside.

At times the book's richly complex plot gets confusing, and some sections aren't especially suspenseful. However, every page is absorbing and affecting and the ending is a shocker. Peopled by a teeming cast of full-blooded characters and set in a San Diego so vivid you can smell the beach and the blood, Cold Pursuit may be Parker's subtlest, most satisfying tale yet. --Nicholas H Allison, Amazon.com

Review

Praise for Red Light: 'Parker's latest sizzles along, an infectious blend of atmosphere, action and passion' Publisher's Weekly 'Tricky plots, driven heroes, runaway action -- you get all that in Red Light' New York Times Book Review Praise for The Blue Hour: 'Jefferson Parker is a powerhouse writer' New York Times Book Review
See all Product Description

Tag this product

 (What's this?)
Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.
Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Cold Pursuit
87% buy the item featured on this page:
Cold Pursuit 3.5 out of 5 stars (2)
Black Water
13% buy
Black Water 3.5 out of 5 stars (2)
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

2 Reviews
5 star:    (0)
4 star:
 (1)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Passable entertainment, 6 Aug 2004
By Mr. Warren M. Fisher (East Grinstead, West Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)      
At times over-plotted and over-written, this still provides steady entertainment. The occasional explosions of action and plot twists manage to break up the occasional longeurs.

A flawed but nonetheless readable thriller, not Parker's best, but better than most.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Irish in San Diego, a tricky fatefull destiny, 2 Nov 2006
By Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   
This review is from: Cold Pursuit (Paperback)
A thriller straight out of San Diego, California, that finds its last leg on the Coronado Bridge over Glorietta Bay. Spectacular, dramatic, a real calamity in all directions and dimensions. Once again with that new generation of American detective novels, we are less interested in the particular details of the case, and at times we may overlook the implications of one particular fact to go on a useless loop that any serious police work would have avoided. The book is more interested in the social behaviorism that it tries to expose and reject. The big family of San Diego, that started as fishermen , is the locale of all kinds of criminal activities and acts, inside the family and outside. The author explores some like the organ trafficking across the Mexican boarder performed by cops, customs officers, etc..., behind the back of this big covering family, with or without their agreement but with their knowledge of it. Then it explores the tremendous poverty from which the Irish have tried to escape, but with mixed and limited results over three generations instead of one for their non-Irish counterparts, because of the deep hostility of the formerly presented family clan. Finally the book shows how a girl from a poor "white trash" family in Kentucky will manage to get out of her social fatality, in spite of the relapse of the police who will consider her as suspicious because of these family antecedents, thus proving there is no predestination or irrevocable destiny even for those who come from the scum of the earth. Parker tries to show that we are always the prisoners of habits that are transmitted to us from one generation to the next, not so much by genes as by education, positive and negative, because education can be both positive and negative. For him we are free to get out of this fatality and build our own future. And yet he insists that it is not that easy to achieve. So the crimes become the pretext, or the go-between, for the author to speak of deep social evil facts. We will regret though a few clichés that could have easily been avoided: alcoholic, hot-blooded Irish people for example. Easy to read and easy to figure out, the book is entertaining indeed.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject









i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.