Target Blue [Mass Market Paperback]

Terry Marlow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1993

When a nude dancer is found dead in the trunk of a car, two cops find themselves on opposite side in the same case, while a week of urban violence threatens to burn the city to the ground. Reprint. PW. K. NYT.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Terry Marlow is another writing team, this time two veteran police officers. Their story involves a drug-and-gun-smuggling case with far-reaching implications in Dallas. From amidst the myriad "gangster" types arise two major forces, the Mexicans and the Jamaicans--with a biker thug and a car thief thrown in for good measure. By the time 20 or 30 cops have run through every aspect of police procedure and begin to share departmental information, the spectacular finale has arrived. Crammed with detail and a host of characters, this will appeal mainly to procedural fans.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews

Unmistakably authentic detail in action and atmosphere distinguish a thriller by and about Dallas policemen cracking car theft and drug rings in one very nasty week. ``Terry Marlow'' is (or are) a Dallas police sergeant and a former Dallas SWAT captain. Not for the fainthearted, this slice of the lowlife begins with a bloody drug-dealer shootout and gets more and more violent, even though the lead cop, Sgt. Bill Clark, heads up the city's auto-theft squad rather than one of the rougher operations. Clark's troops, who normally spend their time closing down chop shops, have opened the smelly trunks of a couple of cars to find butchered bodies of nude go-go dancers. The young victims have had the bad luck to run afoul of ``Mack,'' a sadistic biker who has formed a drug-and-gun-dealing partnership with an apparently respectable and rich young businessman. That drug business is of great interest to an up-and-coming Mexican-American gang and to a Jamaican posse. Complicating everybody's investigations are two undercover policewomen, one of whom has been hooked on speed by the unspeakable Mack. The other officer has donned scanty vest and skirt to work as a waitress in a nude-dancing dive, where she meets the lonesome Sgt. Clark in the middle of a mugging. The interrelationships of the investigations being carried out by a dozen different divisions of the police come to light in an unauthorized meeting of politically incorrect but very clever officers. Brutal, nasty, and quite good. Believable heroics and a breakneck pace. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 294 pages
• Publisher: Jove (April 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515110566
• ISBN-13: 978-0515110562
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,065,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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