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Atlanta Heat

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Colin Biddle owns the world. He comes from a very wealthy Atlanta family and is a renowned police reporter for the Atlanta Constitution. Now, his book, "Street Smarts" is being published. Everything changes for Colin when he and his wife stop for gas at a local convenience store. A bit drunk, Colin gets frustrated with the clerk and his friend. He pulls out his gun and shoots both of them and cleans up the evidence so that it seems like a simple robbery.

Police officer Caesar Roosevelt "C.R." Payne is assigned to investigate the convenience store killings. Like all his fellow officers, C.R. calls Colin to give him a tip about a possible story. Colin begins to help the young officer with his investigation of the robbery-murders that just does not feel right. Also involved is another reporter, Kitty O'Hara, whose brother is one of the victims. With Colin as his main help, chances are slim that C.R. will catch the real culprit.

ATLANTA HEAT is a well written police procedural that is filled with interesting characters and an intriguing look at Atlanta and its race relations. The story line is fast-paced, though there are a couple of questionable leaps of faith. Robert Corum is a master of suspense (try KILL THE ANGELS also) whose latest novel will leave readers wanting more works like this one from him.

Harriet Klausner

I am an African American female and happen to come across this book in a local book store, which sells predominently African American books. I found this book to be a GREAT read, very fast paced and quite enjoyable. It kept me turning every page after page to see what happened next. Although other readers may feel that a "cop" doesn't blab so much, I'd like to remind readers that the author wrote what's called "fiction" and although sometimes we often compare fiction to reality, in the end, it's still fiction.

My hats off to Mr. Coram for writing such a great and entertaining piece of work!

Read this book for believability - I was willing to suspend disbelief until the detective started blabbing EVERYTHING to the reporter. Most cops I know are VERY close-mouthed about everything, much less the details of a double murder. Also, I threw down a red penalty flag when the keys were CONVENIENTLY found in the woods off Piedmont Rd. - too much coincidence. After that, I started looking for details to pull apart....

If you've ever lived in Atlanta or even visited, this book will take you back to all the roads you've ever been on, or all the bars you've ever remembered. The people are so real its incredible. The way that Robert Coram describes the roads and the places in his book will give you goose bumps, because you can remember that corner at Peidmont and the way that Manuels looks and all the law enforcement officers that freuqent it and the knowledge of how the Atlanta Homocide Detectives wear only a certain type of hat, its uncanny.

This is an unbelievable book. I can't believe that a detective would blab everything to a reporter. Although the author is african american, he paints a very small minded view of african american males. He makes his males always trying to get the big break from " the man". They all lust after white women, they respect their mothers and hate their fathers. I did not find that out to around the end of the book. You really don't know much about the main character at all.