Guard Against Dishonour [Paperback]

Simon R. Green (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (June 18, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0747237948
• ISBN-13: 978-0747237945
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,379,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Simon Green is the author of the bestselling DEATHSTALKER cycle, the New York Times bestseller ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, and many other novels. He lives in Bradford-upon-Avon in Wiltshire.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars They May Have Faced Worse, But Not By Much, December 3, 2003

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guard Against Dishonor (Hawk and Fisher, Book 5) (Paperback)

Hawk and Fisher return and face one of their hardest cases ever. The two guard captains have not been in Haven long, but they have made a reputation for being tough and honest. They have faced many terrible things (the worst being in their first adventure, BLUE MOON RISING), but now they face possible dishonor.

A terrible new drug is about to hit the street and Hawk and Fisher are there when a sample is taken. The results are so horrible that Hawk leads a raid on the drug runner to stop him before the new drug gets to the population and destroys the city. But all of the evidence disappears and the perp is released. Hawk and Fisher are now targets from above.

But instead of being taken off duty, they are split up. Hawk has to find out what happened to the evidence while Fisher is volunteered for a suicide mission guarding some peace talks.

But things go wrong and soon both Hawk and Fisher are disgraced and on the run. Somehow they need to clear their own names and find out what happened to their partner. Not an easy task when everyone in the city wants the reward for turning in their corpses.

Another fine mystery/suspense tale. This one ends with an uncharacteristic happy scene. We see a little more of what has make Hawk and Fisher wh they are as well as some more hints to their pre-Haven history (see Blue Moon Rising).

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Forget It - It's Rubbish, November 24, 2001

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Steven Taylor (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guard Against Dishonor (Hawk and Fisher, Book 5) (Paperback)

I am writing this review to warn other people off this book. Forget it, avoid at all costs, this book is terrible.
Bascially it is the fifth (how did it get this far?) book in the Hawk & Fisher series set in Haven, a fantasy city. Basically a drug bust goes wrong, Fisher cops the blame and Hawk sets out to clear her name.
The main problem I have with this book is it is a cliched tough cop story set in a fantasy world, and that simply just does not work. Hawk and Fisher seem to be able to intimidate anyone through presence alone, and whenever they are outnumbered 400 to 1, they always utter the same predictable phrase - "I've faced worse". And it does get worse, as every dilemna gets solved by the main characters hacking through hundreds enemies with their weapons. It is just so totally stupid and unimaginative that every conflict is resolved in the same way.
I really struggle to find positives to talk about when considering this book. There are some grisly scenes that the author has written quite well, but these fail to lift this novel out of the mire.
To conclude, this book is a terrible mish mash of cliched rubbish that is a waste of anyones time.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Jonh Taylor, where are you?, December 10, 2007

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L. Paley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guard Against Dishonor (Hawk and Fisher, Book 5) (Paperback)

Guard Against Dishonor is the worst of the Hawk & Fisher books- and that's saying something.

First, the problems with the series as a whole: it's hard to single out one single bad aspect amid so many bad aspects, but what really kills the Hawk & Fisher series is their moral schizophrenia. Apparently Green was trying to aim for "tough but sensitive", and he figured that tough AND sensitive would add up to pretty much the same thing. So H & F spend half their time tsk-tsking about the widespread corruption, worrying about sick little girls, and in general having moments that should not be read by diabetics, and the other half threatning their people, going rogue, and hacking criminals to bits. Yes, it's as bad as it sounds.

As for Guards Against Dishonor itself: the "plot", such as it is, revolves around a new and dangerous drug that turns people into super-strong madmen. Hawk and Fisher try to track down the drug, kill a bunch of people while moralizing about evil the suppliers are, get seperated, get falsely accused of being traitors, kill some more people, meet up with each other in a highly melodramatic scene where they both decide that they'll stick with each other no matter what, kill some more people, stop the bad guys, and get their names cleared up.

The story has enough holes to make Swiss cheese jealous, the Big Bad Inner City is about as scary as a grocery store (is this really the same guy who created Nightside?), the characters are made of cardboard, and Hawk and Fisher display the above-lamented multiple personality disorder- you thought the bit about the poor sick little girl was just exageration, didn't you? Nope.

But my favorite ham-handed plot point is probably the fire escape. Yes, Haven- that anarchic, Godforsaken, pseudo-Medieval slum- has fire escapes, even in its worst neighborhoods. This is no momentary lapse- there's an entire fight scene that takes place on one.

In short, Guards Against Dishoner is waste of dead trees, and I cannot believe that this unmitigated drek comes from the same man who gave us John Taylor and Eddie Drood. Please, please, do not buy this utter piece of garbage.