A Pleasant Shade Of Gray: A Novel of the NYPD [Import] [Print on Demand (Paperback)]

Anthony Cancelliere (Author)

Product Details

• Print on Demand (Paperback): 312 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse.com (March 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595346782
• ISBN-13: 978-0595346783
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,135,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing book, May 25, 2005

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Phillip Gadney (WAshington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Pleasant Shade Of Gray: A Novel of the NYPD (Print on Demand (Paperback))

This book is filled with plot twists and curve balls out of no where. The story takes you on a roller coaster of events that tie into one great ending. Detective Clark is one of the great cops of our time and really makes you care about him and how he is going to save his partner. A few spelling errors and what not, but I didn't even notice since the story, and the action is just so great.
Anthony Cancelliere is such a great story teller that he is able to take horror and thriller and action mix it with drama and heart break all into once story. He is able to take all these great aspects that I love so much and mix it into one really good story. When the story takes off it really takes off and me as the reader had to buckle my seat belt and really hang on for the ride of my life.
The side plots are so good and the undertones of friendship and love really make this novel good. The book is about how this detective is going to save his best friend, while dealing with his demons. One part of the novel the main detective is walking back and forth talking to himself trying to talk his way to having a drink. It is really a good look at how booze and drugs really can ruin your life. The messages that the author puts in this novel really make it so much more then just a cop and robber novel.
What makes this novel really amazing is that it all happens with in 24 hours. By the time the novel is over it feels like the story took place over weeks or months. This book really shows the dark side of the police force and the dark side of what the political world is like. But it also shows what good cops are willing to do to make sure that justice is served.
This book is really worth the price I paid and if the editor did his job a little better it might be a simply out of this world novel. This book is just really a rare book that is able to mix so many different tones into one 24 plot line. I have so rarely read a book that can do so many things and yet has a solid plot line and works really good. For my money nothing beats this young voice of a talent that is going to making waves in the world of thrillers.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ewwwwww, May 14, 2005

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L. Fritz (Vegas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Pleasant Shade Of Gray: A Novel of the NYPD (Print on Demand (Paperback))

This was a good book with a little for everyone from torture, gun fights, murder and action. Scenes of people getting their arms and legs chopped off by an axe. I didn't know what a snuff film was until i read this book and now that I know it really freaked me out. This book was just sick but thats why I loved it so much.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Thriller that hit home., May 19, 2005

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Sam Thorpe "College Reader" (Atlanta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Pleasant Shade Of Gray: A Novel of the NYPD (Print on Demand (Paperback))

This book is from a fresh new author that really put a good story into a great style of format. I am a big fan of NYPD and 24 and this was put into one novel. You know an author has talent when you care about the people in the book and that's what happened. I got into the story and when people were killed I found my self saying "Oh my god!"
Aside from that when I read this I really got scared. Not because the of the villians in the book but how they killed. I was amazed and maybe shocked that someone could come up with such horrible ways for people to die. The death's were so disgusting and vivid that it really got me in the pit of my stomach. I really thing that this was a thought out plot with alot of great jump moments.