The Murderers: A Badge of Honor Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1578155002 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 295 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Three Stars Karen Good story and good characters -- plot seems like formula. Needs better writing for ending.. Generally I do not read novels in series. However Generally I do not read novels in series. However, W.E.B. Griffin's style, characters, and plot make for entertaining reading. On the downside the introduction to each is a long rehash to bring individuals up to speed on who's who for those readers who casually pick up a book by chance.. Good book This is another fine installment in the Badge of Honor series. A small suggestion would be to double space when the topic within a chapter changes abruptly. The book will be describing a face-to-face conversation, and the next sentence will be about a totally unrelated meeting between other individuals at another location. Needlessly confusing. Otherwise, well done.
But it lacks the solidity of many stand-alone novels and, though engaging enough, gives the impression of characters and an author who are already looking toward the next book. From Publishers Weekly One challenge of series writing is to make each individual novel stand on its own, and Griffin almost succeeds with this fast-paced slice-of-cop-life entry in his Badge of Honor series, the sixth volume overall (after The Assassin) and the first to be published in hardcover. Jason Washington, both of Special Operations. The story, set in 1975, centers around the murder of Philadelphia policeman Jerry Kellog, perhaps committed by a corrupt cop because Kellog's wife, who's left him for another cop, has revealed that her husband's narcotics unit is dirty. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Finding solutions to the three m
At first the crimes seem unconnected. All the way to the top. But these four deaths are about to trigger a massive convergence of corruption, cops, and the mob that could tear the Philadelphia Police Department apart from the inside out. A Philadelphia narcotics cop is shot dead in his home. A bar owner's wife and partner are gunned down during an attempted robbery. And in a beautiful mansion, a young woman dies of a heroin overdose