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California Homicide Detective Tom McMichael has every good reason to pass on the investigation of slain city patriarch Pete Braga. After all, it was former mayor and self-made millionaire Braga who killed Tom's grandfather in a dispute over money -- and Tom's own father who, allegedly, sought revenge by savagely beating Braga's son into imbecility. But there are others who hated the old man as well. And McMichael is a good cop determined to perform his duty to the best of his abilities -- despite his growing feelings for the beautiful nurse who is the prime suspect in the brutal bludgeoning death ... and despite a twisting trail that is leading him into deadly, dark, and very private places where he dearly wishes not to go.
T. Jefferson Parker is the author of thirteen previous novels including the New York Times bestseller The Fallen and the Edgar Award-winning novels California Girl and Silent Joe. He lives in Fallbrook, California.
Parker's writing is a pleasure from the first sentence to the last: intelligent, often quietly poetic, cliché-free, and as crisp and dry as a good Pinot Gris. Here is the book's opening paragraph, which accomplishes several scene-setting tasks while pleasing both ear and brain:
That night the wind came hard off the Pacific, an El Nino event that would blow three inches of rain onto the roofs of San Diego. It was the first big storm of the season, early January and overdue. Palm fronds lifted with a plastic hiss and slapped against the windows of McMichael's apartment. The digitized chirp of his phone sounded ridiculous against the steady wind outside.
At times the book's richly complex plot gets confusing, and some sections aren't especially suspenseful. However, every page is absorbing and affecting, and the ending is a shocker. Peopled by a teeming cast of full-blooded characters and set in a San Diego so vivid you can smell the beach and the blood, Cold Pursuit may be Parker's subtlest, most satisfying tale yet. --Nicholas H. Allison --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Parker, whose Silent Joe won an Edgar in 2001, can turn his hand to many genres: this one is a thriller with elements of family feud, and with a setting-San Diego in an unusually rainy winter-that is wonderfully moody. Homicide cop Tom McMichael is called in on the murder of wealthy old Pete Braga, a legendary local character who was once a tuna fisherman and now moves in the city's top financial circles. The problem is that his Portuguese family and McMichael's Irish one have a rivalry going back two generations. The details of that past, and the picture that emerges of two feisty old men locked into a bitter battle, are the brightest part of the book. The actual plot is more conventional: Braga's attractive nurse is an obvious suspect, so it is unwise for Tom to fall for her. Was the patriarch's killing related to local politics, or perhaps to his changed will? There are numerous red herrings-including a lurid subplot about a crooked cop and a very surprising commodity being smuggled across the border from Mexico-before the violent, rather improbable denouement. It's not unusual for a thriller to begin much better than it ends, but the more eloquent passages of Cold Pursuit make the routine ones doubly disappointing.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From AudioFile
San Diego Homicide Detective McMichael confronts his family's violent past while investigating the bludgeoning death of an old man who many years earlier shot McMichael's grandfather, setting off a family feud. Patrick G. Lawlor's voice blends so well it is sometimes as if the story is telling itself. His characterizations are subtle and apt; his McMichael--sincere and appealing--is especially authentic. McMichael's friendship with a cop in custody for corruption and his attraction to an intriguing murder suspect provide moral and philosophical underpinnings to a plot so filled with stakeouts, shoot- 'em-ups, and chase scenes as to strain credulity. Readers willing to overlook the implausible will enjoy. E.S. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Pete Braga, eightysomething former Port Commissioner, car dealer, and one of San Diego's wealthiest and most influential citizens, is bludgeoned to death by an intruder. Homicide detective Tom McMichael and his team take the call. McMichael has a long history with the Braga family. Twenty years ago, he was wildly in love with Braga's granddaughter. Thirty years before that, McMichael's father was thought to be the man responsible for beating Braga's son so severely he never regained full mental capacity. But that was then. Now McMichael has to set aside the past to find out who killed an old man. Braga's home-care nurse, who made the 911 call, seems the logical suspect, but there are plenty of other candidates. Braga was still active in local politics and could have been taken out by a half-dozen people who would benefit from the power vacuum. And, of course, there are Braga's heirs, who may have simply tired of waiting for his fortune. Parker, a beautiful stylist and winner of the 2001 Edgar Award for Silent Joe, takes the standard mystery plot device of a motive from the distant past and upends it. The result is surprising and deeply satisfying. Another wonderful mystery from one of the very best. Wes Lukowsky
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Kirkus, [starred]
"[Parker's] at the top of his game." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
"[Parker's novels are] the thinking man's bestsellers." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Booklist
"This is one of his best." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
