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Title: Apaches by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0-345-42251-1 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 June, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.91 (88 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I'm already finished.......aaaa man.
Comment: This is the first carcaterra book i've ever read, and from what i've heard it's his worst one to date. I could not put this book down. i finished this book without even realizing that it had only been two days and i did nothing else. coffee became my new best friend, and the sun as well as the shower were as distant to me as my job and my friends. half way through reading the book, i realized that i was reading out loud and starting to have boomer's (Main Character) attitude. this is a surface reader, don't expect to be enthralled in a tale of mystery and intrigue. i enjoyed this book for all the things that others are not. this book is simple and to the point. action is its focus. pick it up.
Rating: 3
Summary: Renegade ex-cops take on drug queen
Comment: The plot is simple and yet exciting. A gang--cadre--team--of six of NYPD's best cops, all disabled in the course of duty, come together with a restraunteur who has links to the mob in order to bring down the Queen Bee of all drug lords (ladies?).
Each of the six protagonists has a rich and detailed past, and we are introduced to them individually in depth before the main action begins. Then Boomer and Dead-Eye (yes, everybody has a nickname) take on a hopeless case and emerge, not only victorious, but feeling alive because they are COPS again. The rest of the group joins them, and Boomer outlines the plan. They will defeat the Empress of evil, a drug dealer so bad, her only good point is that she pays her gym bill on time.
From the moment our team forms, the plot moves lightening fast to its conclusion. The action is great, the detail is satisfying, the dialogue snappy. The characters have their own story, each credulous, each powerful.
Why only three stars? I had to keep flipping back to the beginning chapters to see which of the six former cops had which specialty. Who was the bomb specialist? Flip back and look. Who's the electronics expert? Flip. You get the picture. I loved them all individually, but I would have loved the novel more if only two or three of the characters had been detailed, and the rest just outlined for me.
Even so, the drama unfolds so swiftly, I still recommend this book to anyone who loves a dark, action-filled tale of good versus evil. Do your friends read romances? Okay, don't tell them what happens, they won't sleep at night. But get out the flashlight--you'll be up reading.
Rating: 3
Summary: disappointing
Comment: This is a big disappointment coming from the author of Sleepers. The characters are too broadly drawn, and the situations are all too familiar, making it pale in comparison to Brian Garfield's Death Wish or Andrew Vachss' Burke novels.
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Title: A Safe Place : The True Story of a Father,a Son,a Murder by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345383486 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345404114 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Gangster by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345425294 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Street Boys by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345410998 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title:Sleepers ASIN: 0790729393 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.97 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.02 |
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