While working undercover, San Francisco police officer Grace Chu learns that her corrupt superior is willing to sell her out and must outwit the corrupt official to arrest the head drug lord in Chinatown.
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In the mendacious drug subculture of San Francisco, Korean strong arms have secured the market by eradicating their competitors. When Grace Wu, an undercover cop, gains a position in one dealer's middle management operation, it seems certain the police will get the upper hand. Though she's meticulous about covering her tracks and maintaining her secret identity, a frenetic fellow officer cracks and betrays her, igniting a violent string of events lead to an explosive end.
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The seamless splicing of a fast-moving plot with some very limber prose results in another memorable crime work from the author of Bay of Sorrows. From selling drugs undercover, San Francisco cop Grace Wu is moved away from the streets to the big time and a series of encounters with Korean criminal Kyungmoon Nho, who has just executed two rivals and dumped the bodies. Grace's bent cop boss, John Zito, is sinking fast in a sea of cocaine and vodka and stupidly blows Grace's cover to a low-level dealer, whom he then shakes down. Grace's likable DEA boss, Elgin Lightfoot, is a better sort, but he can't save Grace from being raped and beaten by Nho and his cohorts. When Grace decides on an unorthodox mode of retaliation, Elgin lends a reluctant hand, and a whole bunch of deaths and carnage rapidly ensues. Dold deftly places his characters in a swirling vortex of betrayal. If he gives his protagonists very little idea of what is happening, he does give his readers exquisitely detailed personal histories, which are more often than not very brutal, and which, more often than not, end in trivial death. Bay of Sorrows was much more stylish than a crime yarn actually needs to be, and Schedule Two continues this very admirable tradition.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Schedule Two (Schedule 2) (Hardcover)
He writes very well. Creates characters that live and breathe. Gritty, Staight ahead action. Suspense that moves thru the whole book. Twists that are unforced and you didn't see coming. Why isn't this guy on the best seller list? So much crap is. I'm going to the library to get his early stuff.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very high quality cop story, smart, real style.,
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This review is from: Schedule Two (Schedule 2) (Hardcover)
Schedule II has merits rarely seen in entertainment fiction these days. No cliche's of thought or speech! (I won't read any more of those stories in which someone grunts on the first page, or the narrator drinks too much, or that begin with two sinister bureaucrats talking, etc.) Beautifully organized, fast-moving plot with perfectly fitted bits of chance and stretches of irony. Neither unique heroine nor chief good guy do anything stupid. Brilliant description of the disintegration of a terminal coke addict. And the villains' fates are entirely appropriate to their individual characters
4.0 out of 5 stars
Narc-ing San Francisco. Somebody's got to do it.,
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This review is from: Schedule Two (Schedule 2) (Hardcover)
Undercover narcotics agent Grace Wu works for the San Francisco police department, and tangentially the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. She drives a taxi as a cover, making small drug purchases as a dealer. Her matter-of-fact demeanor garners the attention of higher placed dealers looking to expand distribution.
DEA agent Lightfoot is ecstatic at the prospect of making a major bust, if Wu's contacts are properly developed. Her immediate boss, John Zito of the SFPD, is not so sanguine. He is a bent cop, leaning on Grace's Mexican connection for kickbacks of money and drugs. Worst of all he has exposed her true identity to that dealer.
Grace develops a bigger source, a Korean supplier that needs SF distribution. However, they brutally assault Grace and rip her off of $100,000. Ironically this saves her life, as she changes her daily routine, which thwarts an assassination attempt by the Mexican dealer.
Grace and the DEA agent regroup and in an action series of events even the score with all of the bad guys. The mayhem and body count are enough to make an action-movie producer see $$$.
Good writing is not confined to classics. SCHEDULE TWO has story development, use of believable dialog, and attention to detail which produce an excellent read. The backdrop of San Francisco and the Bay Area complements the action.
Put SCHEDULE TWO at the top of your reading schedule
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