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Larry Cole, Chicago PD chief of detectives, takes on the local mob, petty police bureaucrats, the Vatican, his willful son and a beautiful international master thief who might steal the divorced detective's heart in this welcome addition to an entertaining series featuring predominantly black and always intriguing protagonists and villains. A well-planned bank heist makes fools of Chicago's finest and signals the start of a crime spree launched by upstart mob boss Big Jake Romano, who is looking to bankroll a mob-run casino. A second bank job linked to murdered mystery writer Greg Ennis, an ex-cellmate of Romano's who specialized in mob tell-all books, yields clues that send Cole and Det. Judy Daniels on an undercover Caribbean jaunt after lissome Julianna Saint, a superthief dubbed the Devil's Shadow by the French S–ret‚. They break it off when Daniels's cover is blown, but not before Saint and Cole fall for each other. Back in the Windy City, the mob is out of control, and busy British crime broker Ian Jellicoe has booked Saint for two Chicago jobs one for Romano and one for a high-ranking Vatican bishop that will send Cole's department spinning and bring things to a bloody head. Holton (Red Lightning) bolsters his enjoyably old-fashioned tale and up-to-date twists with an entertaining cast and solid grasp of police procedure. Cole is too often in the right place at the right time, and coincidence and psychic input supply too many answers, but these are minor quibbles. Saint is a welcome arrival and is poised for return fireworks; Cole's son, Butch, will play a larger role in future installments, too. Holton's growing number of fans will gleefully await their return.
From Booklist
Julianna Saint, called L'Ombre du Diable--the Devil's Shadow--is the world's most cunning and successful thief. But when the one-woman crime wave lands in Chicago, she runs into Larry Cole, the Chicago Police Department's Chief of Detectives, and his crack team of sergeants. Complicating Cole's life is Julianna's alliance with Mob boss Jake Romano, who needs the thief's expert help with a monumental bank heist he's planning. After getting wind of the alliance between Julianna and Romano, Cole forms his own alliance with her, although his is of the romantic variety, and it teaches him little, except that she's as beautiful as she is brilliant--witness the fact that the real reason she's in Chicago involves a directive from a high-ranking Vatican official concerning a Chicago museum curator believed to be the antichrist. Holton, a 29-year Chicago PD veteran, writes huge: big, sweeping plots; larger-than-life characters; opulent international settings; and pulse-pounding, beat-the-clock climaxes. Cole has more in common with James Bond than with any real-life cop, but Holton makes it work with breakneck action and rapid pacing. Wes Lukowsky
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Larry Cole, Chicago PD chief of detectives, takes on the local mob, petty police bureaucrats, the Vatican, his willful son and a beautiful international master thief who might steal the divorced detective's heart in this welcome addition to an entertaining series featuring predominantly black and always intriguing protagonists and villains. A well-planned bank heist makes fools of Chicago's finest and signals the start of a crime spree launched by upstart mob boss Big Jake Romano, who is looking to bankroll a mob-run casino. A second bank job linked to murdered mystery writer Greg Ennis, an ex-cellmate of Romano's who specialized in mob tell-all books, yields clues that send Cole and Det. Judy Daniels on an undercover Caribbean jaunt after lissome Julianna Saint, a superthief dubbed the Devil's Shadow by the French S–ret‚. They break it off when Daniels's cover is blown, but not before Saint and Cole fall for each other. Back in the Windy City, the mob is out of control, and busy British crime broker Ian Jellicoe has booked Saint for two Chicago jobs one for Romano and one for a high-ranking Vatican bishop that will send Cole's department spinning and bring things to a bloody head. Holton (Red Lightning) bolsters his enjoyably old-fashioned tale and up-to-date twists with an entertaining cast and solid grasp of police procedure. Cole is too often in the right place at the right time, and coincidence and psychic input supply too many answers, but these are minor quibbles. Saint is a welcome arrival and is poised for return fireworks; Cole's son, Butch, will play a larger role in future installments, too. Holton's growing number of fans will gleefully await their return.
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--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.From Booklist
Julianna Saint, called L'Ombre du Diable--the Devil's Shadow--is the world's most cunning and successful thief. But when the one-woman crime wave lands in Chicago, she runs into Larry Cole, the Chicago Police Department's Chief of Detectives, and his crack team of sergeants. Complicating Cole's life is Julianna's alliance with Mob boss Jake Romano, who needs the thief's expert help with a monumental bank heist he's planning. After getting wind of the alliance between Julianna and Romano, Cole forms his own alliance with her, although his is of the romantic variety, and it teaches him little, except that she's as beautiful as she is brilliant--witness the fact that the real reason she's in Chicago involves a directive from a high-ranking Vatican official concerning a Chicago museum curator believed to be the antichrist. Holton, a 29-year Chicago PD veteran, writes huge: big, sweeping plots; larger-than-life characters; opulent international settings; and pulse-pounding, beat-the-clock climaxes. Cole has more in common with James Bond than with any real-life cop, but Holton makes it work with breakneck action and rapid pacing. Wes Lukowsky
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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