Available:*
Library | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
Searching... Monmouth Public Library | Fic Cannell, S. 2005 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Mount Angel Public Library | CANNELL, S. Shane Scully #5 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Woodburn Public Library | CANNELL | Searching... Unknown |
Bound With These Titles
On Order
Summary
Summary
What if, under the PATRIOT Act, federal bureaucrats could take murder cases away from local cops--then bury those cases so they're never investigated again?
What if government agents could bug your home, your car, your place of business-- your entire life --with nothing more than spoken permission from a secret panel of judges?
What if the Department of Homeland Security could pull police officers off the street and hold them in cells indefinitely as material witnesses--because they're working on "sensitive" investigations?
They can . . .
The PATRIOT Act and the Homeland Security Act give enormous power to our nation's top federal law enforcement officials. They operate under the presumption that these officials are honest, diligent, and fair.
But what if they're not?
In THE COLD HIT, Detective Shane Scully suspects that the regional boss of the Department of Homeland Security is thwarting a major murder investigation. But why?
Robert Allen Virtue can act without oversight or accountability. There's no way to question him; there's no way to way to check up on him; there's no way to find out if he's exceeding his authority. Virtually at will, he can bug anyone he considers a threat to national security, take over criminal investigations, and jail cops. Even if he is breaking the law, there's no way to know it. There's nothing to rely on but his integrity. His professional commitment. His good name. Virtue.
That may be a very big mistake.
Shane and his partner are investigating "the Fingertip Killer," a serial murderer preying on homeless Vietnam vets in Los Angeles. A bullet taken from one victim's skull matches the bullet that killed another man ten years earlier--an unexpected ballistics match linking one unsolved case to another that police call a "cold hit." When the earlier victim turns out to have been an LAPD cop, the investigation becomes very personal for Shane. But there's a problem: Robert Allen Virtue wants him taken off it.
To solve the cop's murder, and possibly the Fingertip case, Scully must go behind the powerful bureaucrat's back and deep undercover--where he will begin unraveling a deadly far-reaching conspiracy that threatens to destroy everything he loves: his career, his freedom, and his family.
Author Notes
Stephen J. Cannell was born in Los Angeles, California on February 5, 1941. He was dyslexic and struggled through school. After graduating from the University of Oregon, he drove a truck for his father's home-decorating business and wrote TV scripts at night and on the weekends. His first writing successes were story ideas sold to Mission Impossible. Four years later, he sold a script for It Takes a Thief. In 1966 a script he submitted for Adam 12 so impressed the producers at Universal that they offered him the position of head writer. At Universal he wrote and helped create several TV shows including The Rockford Files, Baretta, and Baa Baa Black Sheep.
He started his own production company in 1979, generating The A-Team, Riptide, Hunter, and 21 Jump Street. Other credits include Wiseguy, Renegade, and Silk Stalkings. He has scripted over 1,500 TV episodes and created or co-created over 40 programs.
His first novel, The Plan, was published in 1995. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 15 novels including Final Victim, King Con, and the Shane Scully series. He died of complications associated with melanoma on September 30, 2010 at the age of 69.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
After a successful career as a television writer-producer (The Rockford Files; Wiseguy), Cannell is carving a strong second, thanks mainly to the series featuring LAPD homicide sleuth Shane Scully. In this outing, Scully's partner has slipped into an angry, alcoholic funk and their high-priority case-the search for a serial slayer who snips the digits of his homeless victims-is usurped by a task force headed by an arrogant FBI profiler. Cannell's strong suit has always been unique characters, and Scully's world-weary cop and family man is no exception. Add to that an intriguing mystery, authentic cop jargon (smoothly translated), snapshot descriptions of Southern California locales and a couple of tense and amusing LAPD-Homeland Security face-offs. Brick's rendition is clear, precise and effective in adding accent touches. While he knows how to build tension when a buzz saw is pressed to Scully's hand, his voice is too youthful and newsreader perfect to stand in for a disillusioned veteran cop. Scully narrates the novel, and a deeper, darker timbre would have turned this entertaining audio into an exceptional one. Simultaneous release with the St. Martin's hardcover. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
In his new outing, L.A. homicide detective Shane Scully has too many things to deal with. There's the latest in a string of serial murders, although Shane has serious doubts that this victim fits the pattern. There's his captain, who keeps pressing him to get the murder solved before the chief of detectives forms a task force. There's his wife, the aforementioned chief of detectives. There's his partner, an old friend who is in serious danger of letting booze take away his badge. And there's the surprising link between Shane's current murder victim and a decade-old unsolved murder of an L.A. cop. Despite having several novels under his belt, Cannell may still be better known as a television producer ( The A-Team, The Commish, The Rockford Files), but that will soon change. In Scully, he has created one of the genre's most interestingly conflicted characters, a veteran cop who's seen it all and who (like Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch) is getting just a little tired of all the crap. Cannell's writing keeps improving, too; fans of the Scully series will note both an added depth and a new stylistic panache in this installment. With every book, Cannell moves closer to joining crime fiction's A-Team. --David Pitt Copyright 2005 Booklist
Library Journal Review
When a string of homeless men in Los Angeles meet gruesome deaths, Shane Scully and partner are on the case. When one of the murders is linked to the ten-year-old killing of an L.A. cop, Scully and partner are suddenly off the case. Seems that a government cover-up is afoot. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.