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Title: The Killing Maze by David Cole ISBN: 0-06-101395-1 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: It's OK, but...
Comment: While this book is entertaining, I found the level of graphic violence to be more than I would have liked. Also, I live in Tucson and Cole obviously does not. He gets details about the city wrong, which takes away from the authencity of the story for me. For example, he refers to Highway US10 several times. It's an interstate, so it's I-10. Perhaps that would not be noticed if you didn't live in Arizona, but the lack of research on matters like this bothered me.
Rating: 4
Summary: Engaging Characters, Excessive Violence
Comment: I love mystery novels, but this one was a mixture of attraction and repulsion for me. The protagonist, Laura, is very engaging and fascinating. A Hopi Indian who got involved with AIM, wanted by the FBI, on the lam, and a self-trained computer expert (read that: hacker) is now living under manufactured identity and using her skills working for a Private Investigator.
In that capacity, she gets involved with a case which involves
stolen identities, computer fraud, prescription abuse, and what runs close to the most on-page violence that I can remember reading in a mystery novel. If this book were reality, it would severely increase the annual murder rate in Pima County, AZ! By the end of the book, I'd lost count of the number of peopole who'd been killed in the protagonist's quest for justice.
If you are fascinated by what can be learned through hacking into computer networks, this is a wonderful book. If you like reading about gutsy-but-vulnerable female protagonists, this is a wonderful book. If you are turned on by violence, this is a wonderful book. But I think it would take a taste for all three of those characteristics to be able to read this book without having to put it down every few pages, just to let your innards settle down.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Terrific Read
Comment: Being a huge Tony Hillerman fan, I like to choose other authors who operate in a native American milieu. I was immediately hooked by Laura, with her complex past and all of her medical problems; nevertheless, she manages to overcome and solve, in this outing, an incredibly complex fraud, including some really dangerous situations. I will definitely read more by this author.
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Title: Stalking Moon by David Cole ISBN: 0380819708 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Scorpion Rain by David Cole ISBN: 0380819716 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Butterfly Lost by David Cole ISBN: 0061013943 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Dragonfly Bones by David Cole ISBN: 0060511931 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Cry Dance by Kirk Mitchell ISBN: 0553579142 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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