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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Artie Cohen isn't your average New York City cop. Born Artemy Maximovich Ostalsky in Moscow, Artie left Russia at 16, spent some time in the Israeli Army, then came to America and joined the NYPD, where his background gives him special tools to use in fighting imported criminals. Now, after the misadventures chronicled in his first outing (Red Hot Blues, 1998), Artie is officially on "extended leave without pay," but foreign-flavored crime still swirls around him. When a good friend in the diamond business finds a dead Chinese girl in his shop, he calls on Artie. The family of Ricky Tae, who was badly wounded saving Artie's life, begs him to help their daughter break her drug habit?fueled by an exotic kind of irradiated heroin from China known as Hot Poppy. Meanwhile, Artie's lover, Lily Hanes, desperately seeking an adopted child, finds herself in trouble on the Chinese mainland, where intentionally fattened female infants are also called "hot poppies." The New York Chinatown turf has been explored before (e.g., by the likes of S.J. Rozan), but Nadelson (an American who lives in London) makes it her own by creating fresh characters with unexpected insights that make their travails both entertaining and real.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
In his second adventure, ex-cop Artie Cohen tangles with another group of international criminals. A Russian immigrant himself, Cohen battled the Russian Mafia in Red Hot Blues; this time it's a group of Hong Kong wise guys, running sweatshops in Manhattan and turning illegal immigrants into prostitutes. Cohen was forced to confront his own past when his first case took him to Russia; here he's off to Hong Kong, where he tackles an equally lethal criminal organization with ties to his best friends in New York. This series effectively combines the traditional hard-boiled formula (loner/knight errant walking the mean streets) with a savvy, nineties feel for the silk-suited nature of international crime. There is a little too much going on in Nadelson's overstuffed plot (sweatshops, baby-adoption rackets, high-powered heroin, relationship troubles, Hong Kong politics), but Cohen has the makings of a reliable hard-boiled hero in the classic Marlowe mold. A series to watch. Bill Ott
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Artie Cohen isn't your average New York City cop. Born Artemy Maximovich Ostalsky in Moscow, Artie left Russia at 16, spent some time in the Israeli Army, then came to America and joined the NYPD, where his background gives him special tools to use in fighting imported criminals. Now, after the misadventures chronicled in his first outing (Red Hot Blues, 1998), Artie is officially on "extended leave without pay," but foreign-flavored crime still swirls around him. When a good friend in the diamond business finds a dead Chinese girl in his shop, he calls on Artie. The family of Ricky Tae, who was badly wounded saving Artie's life, begs him to help their daughter break her drug habit?fueled by an exotic kind of irradiated heroin from China known as Hot Poppy. Meanwhile, Artie's lover, Lily Hanes, desperately seeking an adopted child, finds herself in trouble on the Chinese mainland, where intentionally fattened female infants are also called "hot poppies." The New York Chinatown turf has been explored before (e.g., by the likes of S.J. Rozan), but Nadelson (an American who lives in London) makes it her own by creating fresh characters with unexpected insights that make their travails both entertaining and real.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
In his second adventure, ex-cop Artie Cohen tangles with another group of international criminals. A Russian immigrant himself, Cohen battled the Russian Mafia in Red Hot Blues; this time it's a group of Hong Kong wise guys, running sweatshops in Manhattan and turning illegal immigrants into prostitutes. Cohen was forced to confront his own past when his first case took him to Russia; here he's off to Hong Kong, where he tackles an equally lethal criminal organization with ties to his best friends in New York. This series effectively combines the traditional hard-boiled formula (loner/knight errant walking the mean streets) with a savvy, nineties feel for the silk-suited nature of international crime. There is a little too much going on in Nadelson's overstuffed plot (sweatshops, baby-adoption rackets, high-powered heroin, relationship troubles, Hong Kong politics), but Cohen has the makings of a reliable hard-boiled hero in the classic Marlowe mold. A series to watch. Bill Ott
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