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From Publishers Weekly
PI John Caine's fourth adventure opens promisingly with a wild street shootout at a Triad funeral in San Francisco, but the brakes are stomped when the Vietnam-era Navy SEAL catches a round in his back and the medics take over. Many chapters of rest and rumination follow. All Caine wants to do is get back to his sailboat, berthed in Pearl Harbor, and heal his wounds, but a female cop charges him with murder for the death of an innocent bystander at the melee. The body counts racked up in his previous exploits, plus the new incident, may have given Caine a reservation at the gray bar hotel. Against this fairly realistic handling of legal maneuvering and recovery (including the realization that he experienced life-altering post-traumatic stress disorder after Nam) hovers the shadowy question of who ordered the sniper to open fire. Knief (Diamond Head; Sand Dollars; Emerald Flash) also offers his weakened hero a superbly romantic case back in Hawaii: the discovery of the underwater tomb of the legendary King Kamehameha, filled with treasure from a wrecked Spanish galleon (which proves the islands were visited before Cook) all threatened by a newly erupting volcano. These plot lines never quite mesh but Knief keeps everything moving so that many readers may never notice though fans of the sensitive warrior sub-genre might experience a vague wish for a little less sensitive and a lot more warrior before reaching the last page.
From Booklist
Knief's latest John Caine novel begins with a bang, literally, as Caine is shot in a gunfight in San Francisco while protecting his old friend, crime boss Chawlie Choy. Caine flies back to Hawaii, the series' traditional setting, to recuperate, but soon enough he is taking a young student out on his boat to explore an underwater royal tomb she has discovered. Numerous violent altercations follow, involving both Chawlie and the hidden tomb. And if that weren't enough, Caine is extradited to San Francisco to face murder charges arising from the earlier shooting. Will Caine find the link between the violence in Hawaii and in San Francisco? How many times will he get shot in the course of one story? Discovering answers to those and other puzzles proves thoroughly captivating, both because the action keeps us reading and because Caine is a thoroughly captivating character in the classic hard-boiled mold. Jenny McLarin
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PI John Caine's fourth adventure opens promisingly with a wild street shootout at a Triad funeral in San Francisco, but the brakes are stomped when the Vietnam-era Navy SEAL catches a round in his back and the medics take over. Many chapters of rest and rumination follow. All Caine wants to do is get back to his sailboat, berthed in Pearl Harbor, and heal his wounds, but a female cop charges him with murder for the death of an innocent bystander at the melee. The body counts racked up in his previous exploits, plus the new incident, may have given Caine a reservation at the gray bar hotel. Against this fairly realistic handling of legal maneuvering and recovery (including the realization that he experienced life-altering post-traumatic stress disorder after Nam) hovers the shadowy question of who ordered the sniper to open fire. Knief (Diamond Head; Sand Dollars; Emerald Flash) also offers his weakened hero a superbly romantic case back in Hawaii: the discovery of the underwater tomb of the legendary King Kamehameha, filled with treasure from a wrecked Spanish galleon (which proves the islands were visited before Cook) all threatened by a newly erupting volcano. These plot lines never quite mesh but Knief keeps everything moving so that many readers may never notice though fans of the sensitive warrior sub-genre might experience a vague wish for a little less sensitive and a lot more warrior before reaching the last page.
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From Booklist
Knief's latest John Caine novel begins with a bang, literally, as Caine is shot in a gunfight in San Francisco while protecting his old friend, crime boss Chawlie Choy. Caine flies back to Hawaii, the series' traditional setting, to recuperate, but soon enough he is taking a young student out on his boat to explore an underwater royal tomb she has discovered. Numerous violent altercations follow, involving both Chawlie and the hidden tomb. And if that weren't enough, Caine is extradited to San Francisco to face murder charges arising from the earlier shooting. Will Caine find the link between the violence in Hawaii and in San Francisco? How many times will he get shot in the course of one story? Discovering answers to those and other puzzles proves thoroughly captivating, both because the action keeps us reading and because Caine is a thoroughly captivating character in the classic hard-boiled mold. Jenny McLarin
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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