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Title: The Tin Collectors : A Novel by Stephen J. Cannell ISBN: 0-312-97951-7 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read
Comment: Los Angeles Police Sergeant Shane Sculley sleeps peacefully in his bed with no major cares haunting him until the call at 2:16 AM comes. Barbara Mular, the wife of Shane's former partner pleads with him to save her life from her husband Ray who is beating her up. When Shane arrives at the Mular home, the door is open so he enters. He sees Ray knocking Barbara around with his nightstick. Shane tries to diffuse the situation, but is forced to kill Ray when the latter draws out his gun.
Instead of the normal channels, a high up in the department forces Ray to go before a review board. Ray happens to have been the mayor's driver and bodyguard. "His Honor" wants Shane to go down preferably with a murder conviction. Shane learns that things are soon missing form Ray's home and if they discretely reappear all charges would be dropped. Shane knows corruption has been a way of life for LAPD, and he has to uncover it if he wants to clear his name.
Stephen Cannell starts this novel with a fast-action tale that continues to build up momentum until the story line exceeds the speed of light. Readers will empathize with Shane, an endearing hero struggling to regain his idyllic life lost in the corruption maelstrom. THE TIN COLLECTORS is an exciting story that leaves the audience wondering who will police the police when IA is corrupt?
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: New series by Cannell is off to an excellent start
Comment: In The Tin Collectors, Stephen Cannell offers the first in a new series that is also very much a police procedural. With 5 successful prior novels, Cannell is still best known for writing/producing such television hits as the Rockford Files, Baretta, The A-Team, Renegade, Silk Stalkings and many others.
Officer Shane Scully gets a frantic call from the wife of his ex-partner Ray 'Steeltooth' Molar. Molar is beating her. Again. ("You don't get the name 'Steeltooth' just because your last name's Molar") In self-defense, Scully is forced to kill the abusive husband. The killing of the popular, virtually legendary cop brings Scully more grief than he ever imagined. Put in charge of Scully's Internal Affairs prosecution is Alexa Hamilton, the department's "number one tin collector." When he is accused directly by the Chief of Police of taking files from Molar's house and threatened with facing a murder charge if the material is not returned, Scully is convinced he's being set up.
Scully begins his own investigation and soon uncovers evidence of corruption in high places. Hamilton is the only one he can turn to who just might believe him.
Some glib prime-time dialog does seep in. (When Scully's house is hit in a drive by shooting he says, "I got enough lead in the walls to go into strip mining.") Cannell keeps the tension and pace at high levels so a bit of cliché doesn't really detract. There is no mistaking Cannell's mastery of story telling. The same sense of character and dialog that have made his television shows hits, guides him here. The Tin Collectors is a sure winner.
Rating: 4
Summary: One annoying character, one star lost
Comment: Reading this review will give away some of the ending, so please turn your eyes away from this review now if that matters to you.
I was at first disappointed by the novel because I was expecting Internal Affairs (IA) to be more hard-charging and come up with more characters to loathe, especially since the only character I truly hated was Chooch, the obnoxious teen left in the care of Shane Scully's (the main character's) care by his prostitute mother.
Surprisingly, the lack of overbearing IA behavior, which I expected and actually wanted, wasn't the downside I thought it might me. In fact, the only downside to this otherwise excellent novel was that Chooch wasn't killed. Of course, the revelation that Chooch is Shane's son makes for an interesting lead-in for future novels in the Scully series, but Chooch was such an obnoxious jerk that I'd have been willing to settle for a bitter and rogue Scully for as long as the series lasted.
Whether Chooch's survival pleases or annoys you, this is a top-notch book written by a real pro. I'll be reading the rest of the series.
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Title: The Viking Funeral by Stephen J. Cannell ISBN: 0312983433 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hollywood Tough: A Shane Scully Novel by Stephen J. Cannell ISBN: 0312291027 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 17 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Plan by Stephen J. Cannell ISBN: 0380727544 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Final Victim by Stephen J. Cannell ISBN: 0380728168 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Riding the Snake by Stephen J. Cannell ISBN: 0380800160 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 03 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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