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    The Tin Collectors
    The Tin Collectors
    The Tin Collectors
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Tin Collectors

    Written by Stephen J. Cannell

    Narrated by Robert Lawrence

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    About this audiobook

    Bestselling novelist Stephen J. Cannell weaves a high-tension novel around a chilling conspiracy of corruption within the LAPD

    L.A. police detective Shane Scully comes under investigation by Internal Affairs (derisively known as "the tin collectors") after he kills his ex-partner, who was one of the mayor's bodyguards. Temporarily reassigned so that he can remain under the department's watchful eye, Scully finds that more than his badge is at stake when he is set up to take the rap in a deadly plot of corruption and conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the LAPD.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 25, 2005
    ISBN9781596006454
    The Tin Collectors
    Author

    Stephen J. Cannell

    In his thirty-five-year career, Emmy Award-winning writer Stephen J. Cannell has created more than forty TV series. Among his hits are The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

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    • 4/5
      The interesting back story of Chooch and Alexa, though of all the books in the series, the plot line toward the end got more and more far fetched. A fun ride nonetheless.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely Excellent! My kind of reading. I Want to recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good old fashioned “who-done it”!
    • 5/5
      Shane Scully of the LAPD gets a late night call from the wife of his former partner - she says her husband is going to kill her. He makes a mad dash over to their house where he finds his former partner in an alcoholic rage. After a struggle, Scully kills the guy with a return shot. An open and shut case of self defense. But things quickly get ugly and talk soon turns towards murder charges. Cannell, a tv writer as well, knows how to move a story along.
    • 2/5
      This gets two stars because it evoked in me enough curiosity about what was going on to persist to the end. But it certainly left me not ever wanting to read another book by the author. For one, the prose is cringe-worthy. It uses epithets like "the beautiful raven-haired informant" rather than use the name of the character; it has intrusive speech tags like "groused" and uses punctuation like "!?" at the end of sentences. It indicates someone is Hispanic by spelling sentences like: Das allcha gonna haf? It ends on a maudlin cliche--more than one really. But the reason I find it a pretty lousy novel lies at the heart of the plot. It's what's known as an "idiot plot" in terms of critiquing because it only works if the characters are idiots. In the case of the villains, as in so many "gritty" and "hard-boiled" detective fiction, they would have been free and clear if only they hadn't hung a "look-this-way" sign by doing things like persecuting the hero and machine gunning his home. In the case of the hero, Shane Scully, instead of going rogue, it would have made much more sense when opposed by corruption at the top of city government to either go to reporters--or, here's a notion--the Feds. It's rather what the Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Attorney is for, and a cop would know that.