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Title: Final Justice by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0-399-14926-0 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (29 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another guilty pleasure
Comment: I liked this better than Griffin's last book (in the Corps series) and I liked this one better than the last Badge of Honor issue.
I agree with the criticisms of this and other W.E.B. Griffin books. They are all pretty much the same, fish out of water rich boy serves in the Army, Marines or Police. Finds he is really suited to a life of adventure and meets other good guys in the series, very quickly falls in love with some beauty, has sex and then gets drunk on scotch. What's not to like? I counted up the various Griffin books, I've read them all (over 30) and they are all virtually the same, and yet I love them like I love Cheetos and beer. Just can't put them down. I'll make time to read these books. I liked this one a lot and the inconsistancies were not as pronounced as with his last work.
Relax and enjoy the ride (or chase as the case may be).
Rating: 3
Summary: Not everybody gets along . . .
Comment: Most of the mystery writers we frequently read, Elizabeth George, Crais, James Crumley, DeMille, feel free to discuss the petty irritations, resentments and sometimes out and out disregard for the people surrounding the main characters. Not so with the Griffen series (any Griffen series.)
Here is the criteria for all of the characters central to the plot, as I understand it to be. The heroes are surrounded by a group of 'special friends' of different races, Church habits, drinking habits, wives, and (oddly enough) ranks in the Department, Marine Corps or the Army. These 'friends' all get invited to the same mansions for elegant, servant-staff served parties, and reaffirm that they all see life the same way the hero does. There is order and then there is retribution.
Here's the key: intelligence, sexy wives or girlfriends ('she looked just as good walking away from me as she had walking to me'), a love of Scotch or other alcohol, loyalty for procedure, and an agonizing amount of simultaneous inner thoughts written in italics while someone else is speaking.
The Griffen books are the most sexist books in print while at the same time being unrealistic in what conversations people who work with eachother will tolerate in eachother. The closest friends are Black, Irish, 'wasp'ish, whatever that is now, Jewish, Middle Eastern, (ditto 'whatever that is now'), Italian, Episcopalean, Catholic and Methodist. All the wives know eachother and more remarkably, like eachother, drink heavily, and know (in this case) as much about police procedure as the husbands/boyfriends do. Everyone drinks an enormous amount of booze. And along the way they solve terrible crimes.
If you want a taste of how people really get along, I vote for George Pelecanos. He writes brilliantly of the anger, resentments, confusion and dislike we find for people in our every day walk through the nine to five. Read 'Shame the Devil' or 'Soul Circus.' That's real. This is not real.
I found more obscene language frivolously spoken in "Final Justice" than in the other Griffen novels. Additionally, Griffen, like any popular writer, has a cult-like following. I'm certainly one of the members, having read all of the series. So if you're going to radically alter the timeline of the series, like three decades, didn't Griffen think someone was going to notice? Didn't he want to offer up an explanation? Or did he just feel that his fans would read it anyhow and didn't deserve an explanation?
I guess we didn't. I read it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Could have been excellent
Comment: The Devil is the details. As usual for Mr. Griffin's books, once I picked it up, I didn't put it down until I was done. I am sorry to say that this book was a huge disappointment.
The series started in the 1970's, and finding decent typewriters, Xerox machines, etc. was difficult. Now, everybody has cell phones, laptop computers, Buick Rendezvous SUVs (introduced in 2001), etc. Nobody has aged, the previous book supposedly happened six months prior, but we are in The Twilight Zone with the current setting.
What happened to Amanda?
When special Ops started, S-Sam was changed to W, but we're back to S.
What happened to the mayor?
Matt's eyes are the problem, not his ears
Matt just made detective, how did he get this promotion so soon?
Everybody is now back in Homocide?
If you set the darn book in 200x, don't have the characters act straight out of the 1970's!
The story was OK, but it just wasn't the same. I love Mr. Griffin's historical fiction, but this was a huge let-down.
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Title: Retreat, Hell by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0399150811 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 05 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Under Fire by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515134376 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Investigators by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515124060 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Murderers by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515117420 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Witness by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515107476 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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