King City
Written by Lee Goldberg
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
3.5/5
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#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
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.”
Lee Goldberg
Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including Lost Hills, the Ian Ludlow trilogy (True Fiction, Killer Thriller and Fake Truth), fifteen Monk mysteries, and five internationally bestselling Fox & O'Hare books (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, and The Pursuit) co-written with Janet Evanovich. He has also written and/or produced many TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and Monk, and is the co-creator of the hit Hallmark movie series Mystery 101. As an international television consultant, he has advised networks and studios in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, China, Sweden, and the Netherlands on the creation, writing, and production of episodic television series. He is also co-founder of the publishing company Brash Books (www.brash-books.com) You can find more information about Lee and his work at www.leegoldberg.com
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Light entertainment. A cop show pitch turned into a book. Would have been a decent show.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ending, and some of the action, lacked credibility, but if you don't care about that, this is a great read. Cop has a great sense of honor, and a quiet, but fantastic sense of humor. I'm very happy to read that the author is writing a sequel.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fast-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. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's very schematic, predictable and rigid. It's reading more like a movie scrypt. Characters could come from a comic book. Still, there is something satisfying in all this and I have to say (guiltily) that I somewhat enjoyed it.