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Title: Reckless Endangerment by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-451-19328-8 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A bit over the top but still a great read!
Comment: For those who have followed the trials (literally) and tribulations of Butch Karp and his one-eyed, gun-totin', walk-on-the-wild-side wife/lawyer/partner in crime Marlene Ciampi, "Reckless Endangerment" should prove to be as endearing a story as the titles preceding it. Read in order they paint an interesting hindsight picture of the late seventies and early eighties as Robert Tanenbaum relates the gruesome, thrilling and sometimes hilarious life and times in the NYPD Homicide Bureau. In this episode, Marlene and Butch's daughter, Lucy, really takes top billing. The polyglot (she has learned Mandarin, French, Tex-Mex Spanish, and some Arabic) kid, along with her shady Vietnamese mentor/babysitter, Tran, leads her parents and the cops around the Big Apple in search of Arabs, Jews, and a sadistic/wounded/crazy Mexican killer-child named El Chivato among others. The escapades often reach the height of unreality but who cares?? The ending was a bit! too pat, but I did not want the story to end. So, Mr. Tanenbaum, give up the law career and write full time, okay?
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing effort by author
Comment: Having previously read and enjoyed IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE by
Robert K. Tanenbaum, I looked forward to listening to RECKLESS
ENDEARMENT . . . I further wanted to catch-up on what was
happening with two characters i had "met" in the previous book,
Butch Barp and Marlene Ciampi . . . they discover themselves
working on two sides of the same case when several homicides
rock downtown manhattan . . . but was I ever disappointed! . . . it
is an excessively convoluted thriller that starts well, then gets bogged
down with too many characters and subplots . . . I also didn't find it
very believable . . . I'll take a "pass" on other books by
Tannenbaum; i.e., unless somebody tells me that I
just caught the author on a rare bad day/effort.
Rating: 4
Summary: Now You Have To Pay Attention
Comment: You've really got to keep your wits about you when you're reading this story. There are about 5 different threads of storylines that are gradually woven together tighter and tighter until something just has to give. And when it does, the effects are devastating.
It's New York City, 1981 and the racial tensions between the Arabs and the Jews are simmering. A plot is being hatched and put into place by a small Arab group to start a holy war by bombing the Jewish part of town. Separate to this, yet delicately connected are a couple of Mexican brothers who have been arrested and charged with murdering an undercover officer during a drug bust. This is where Deputy D.A. Butch Karp comes into the picture, he's interested in getting a conviction, you see. Marlene Ciampi, Butch's wife is a private detective, specialising in protecting abused women and is also tenuously drawn into the picture after an Arab girl flees the family home. Now just add a murder or two, stir and let the fun begin.
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Title: Irresistible Impulse by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451192613 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Falsely Accused by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451190009 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Corruption of Blood by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451181964 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Material Witness by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451180208 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Immoral Certainty by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451171861 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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