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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780061096877 ISBN: 0061096873 Label: HarperTorch Manufacturer: HarperTorch Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: September 01, 1999 Publisher: HarperTorch Release Date: September 08, 1999 Studio: HarperTorch Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: "An explosive thriller with plenty of action, edge-of-your-seat pacing, and an appealing hero." Product Description: When former cop Phil Broker's naïve 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Clunky long and boringI read about the first 60 pages and it took me three days! I gave up. I just could NOT get into this. I was lost much of the time trying to figure out who was who! The author seems to presuppose that you've read a prior book and know who all these people are. Nope, and I would never read this author again. Thank goodness I got this at the discount book store for $.25 and it wasn't worth that. The writing was very clunky and ponderous and ... not good. Rating: - Unbelievable....That is the word i kept thinking of as i read this book. I just could not believe that a publishing house would pay for this kind of writing.If there is a more dis-honest writer of fiction out there i haven't come across him. Or a plot more predictible.You've read this book a hundred times before. Only the names and the metaphores have changed. I can just see Chuck Logan working over the formula outline for thrillers. Inserting a name here, an auto model there, a precisely detailed firearm here.... ... Read More Rating:  - Chuck Logan does it again!!I can't believe this book sat on my shelf for over a year and I didn't read it. I finished it in one day! Once again, Chuck Logan immerses the reader in the world of his protagonist,in this case, Phil Broker. Hopefully we'll see more of Broker in future books. This is a great read and the "daddy" scenes are winners. The reviewer who says Broker doesn't care about his wife and child didn't read this book very carefully. What about the last sentence????? Maybe one has to understand about "compartments" ... Read More Rating: - Metaphor Mother-lodeChuck Logan doesn't think like the rest of us. Research shows that the typical adult male experiences a sexual thought every fifteen seconds, on average. That's how often Logan thinks up a new metaphor. The Big Law is a wonderfully constructed spellbinder. Ex-cop Phil Broker is called back into action in the unlikely role of trying to clear his ex-boss in the murder of his ex-wife. That's a lot of "ex's." And there are more: exciting suspense, excellent machine-gun-like delivery, extraordinary ... Read More Rating: - Another solid entry from Chuck LoganPhil Broker is an ex-Saint Paul cop who now lives on Michigan's Upper Peninsuala with his infant daughter. However, when his ex-wife, Caren, finds her present husband is in deep with the Chicago mob she grabs the two million dollar payoff and goes running to Broker for help. On the way, she pairs up with morally-bankrupt reporter Tom James who sees his big chance to grab for the brass ring by murdering Caren, framing her husband, and disappearing with the two million into the FBI Witness Protection Program. ... Read More |
