Pushed to the breaking point by the sleaziness of Chicago's back alleys and side streets, Bernie Shepard, an honest cop, kills his wife and fellow officer and barricades himself in a concrete blockade on top of a high-rise. 30,000 first printing.
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Sixty-year-old Chicago cop Abe Lieberman (introduced in the praised Lieberman's Folly ) returns in a deliberately minimalist story carried by dialogue and characterization. Abe would rather shoot the breeze with his pals in the local deli than brave the mean streets of the Windy City's north side. He's not scared or lazy, just wise and fond of his life, which includes an independent wife, a difficult daughter, a pompous son-in-law and Hanrahan, his boozing Irish partner. Fellow cop Bernie Shephard finds his wife and another cop in bed and blows them away, retreating to the roof of his apartment building with food, his dog, guns and explosives. He kills a couple of gung-ho SWAT-team snipers and is willing to die himself, planning to take several blocks of real estate with him when he goes. An assortment of official plans to thwart him yields to a final rooftop confrontation with Abe and the police captain. As orchestrated by Kaminsky (author also of the Porfiry Rostnikov series), Abe's conversation--whether with his old Jewish buddies, some small-time cons or his family--is pure pleasure, with never a false, extraneous note.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Kaminsky gets his details exactly right....Tightly plotted...The best mysteries work on multiple levels, and this one is no exception."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Detective Sergeant Abe Lieberman is about to wake up to every policeman's nightmare--an out-of-control colleague hell-bent on revenge. After gunning down his wife and her lover, a fellow cop, Bernie Shepard has retreated to a makeshift bunker atop his high-rise apartment buliding, armed with a high-powered rifle and enough explosives to destroy a neighborhood. Holding his former comrades Lieberman and Bill Hanrahan desperately at bay, he issues his single demand: a confrontation with police captain Alan Kearney--or else, widespread slaughter. Either way, Leiberman knows, it's a choice that can only end in disaster.
From the Paperback edition. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Detective Sergeant Abe Lieberman is about to wake up to every policeman's nightmare--an out-of-control colleague hell-bent on revenge. After gunning down his wife and her lover, a fellow cop, Bernie Shepard has retreated to a makeshift bunker atop his high-rise apartment buliding, armed with a high-powered rifle and enough explosives to destroy a neighborhood. Holding his former comrades Lieberman and Bill Hanrahan desperately at bay, he issues his single demand: a confrontation with police captain Alan Kearney--or else, widespread slaughter. Either way, Leiberman knows, it's a choice that can only end in disaster.
From the Paperback edition. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Rogue Cop Holds City at Ransom,
By Bonnie Brody "Book Lover and Knitter" (Port St. Lucie, FL) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 100 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Lieberman's Choice (Hardcover)
This is an adventure novel about a rogue cop who catches his wife in bed with
her lover and kills them. He threatens to blow up the city if his demands are not met. There is good dialogue and the book is intelligently written. The character of Abe Lieberman, Jewish cop, is very real and empathetically drawn.
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Would make a nice two TV hour movie to watch on a quiet Sunday,
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This review is from: Lieberman's Choice (Hardcover)
This is the first sequel in the Lieberman series by Kaminsky. He is working on four of them at this time. If you keep in mind that Kaminsky has been writing TV scripts since the sixties (he wrote for the "Man from U.N.C.L.E.") and currently writes for the CSI series, you'll recognize his style. There is little narrative and the dialogue is always crisp, and few if any extraneous characters. If you read real carefully, you can even guess where the commercial breaks would be.
All this said, it's still an enjoyable series to read. It isn't terribly profound, nor are there any great surprises, everything goes pretty linear. But if you are looking for something fun to read, that doesn't ask for anything intellectually from you, except of course for your time, this is what your looking for. I am looking forward to the next episode, eh...installment.
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