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Why isn't T. Jefferson Parker as famous as, say, James Patterson or Robert B. Parker? He's that good, and in some ways better. In Cold Pursuit, his 11th novel, San Diego homicide cop Tom McMichael finds himself investigating the bludgeoning death of Pete Braga, a prominent city patriarch who was also a blood enemy of the McMichael family. It's a complex case fraught with political and economic pressures, ugly family history, police corruption, and multiple red herrings, made more complex by McMichael's romantic attraction to a key suspect.
Why isn't T. Jefferson Parker as famous as, say, James Patterson or Robert B. Parker? He's that good, and in some ways better. In Cold Pursuit, his 11th novel, San Diego homicide cop Tom McMichael finds himself investigating the bludgeoning death of Pete Braga, a prominent city patriarch who was also a blood enemy of the McMichael family. It's a complex case fraught with political and economic pressures, ugly family history, police corruption, and multiple red herrings, made more complex by McMichael's romantic attraction to a key suspect.
Parker's writing is a pleasure from the first sentence to the last: intelligent, often quietly poetic, cliché-free, and as crisp and dry as a good Pinot Gris. Here is the book's opening paragraph, which accomplishes several scene-setting tasks while pleasing both ear and brain:
That night the wind came hard off the Pacific, an El Nino event that would blow three inches of rain onto the roofs of San Diego. It was the first big storm of the season, early January and overdue. Palm fronds lifted with a plastic hiss and slapped against the windows of McMichael's apartment. The digitized chirp of his phone sounded ridiculous against the steady wind outside.
At times the book's richly complex plot gets confusing, and some sections aren't especially suspenseful. However, every page is absorbing and affecting, and the ending is a shocker. Peopled by a teeming cast of full-blooded characters and set in a San Diego so vivid you can smell the beach and the blood, Cold Pursuit may be Parker's subtlest, most satisfying tale yet. --Nicholas H. Allison
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Parker, whose Silent Joe won an Edgar in 2001, can turn his hand to many genres: this one is a thriller with elements of family feud, and with a setting-San Diego in an unusually rainy winter-that is wonderfully moody. Homicide cop Tom McMichael is called in on the murder of wealthy old Pete Braga, a legendary local character who was once a tuna fisherman and now moves in the city's top financial circles. The problem is that his Portuguese family and McMichael's Irish one have a rivalry going back two generations. The details of that past, and the picture that emerges of two feisty old men locked into a bitter battle, are the brightest part of the book. The actual plot is more conventional: Braga's attractive nurse is an obvious suspect, so it is unwise for Tom to fall for her. Was the patriarch's killing related to local politics, or perhaps to his changed will? There are numerous red herrings-including a lurid subplot about a crooked cop and a very surprising commodity being smuggled across the border from Mexico-before the violent, rather improbable denouement. It's not unusual for a thriller to begin much better than it ends, but the more eloquent passages of Cold Pursuit make the routine ones doubly disappointing.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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That night the wind came hard off the Pacific, an El Nino event that would blow three inches of rain onto the roofs of San Diego. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brain thorn, bench laser, owl parrots, port commissioners, cargo terminal, trophy room Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sally Rainwater, Pete Braga, San Diego, Port Commission, Imperial Beach, Jimmy Thigpen, Tunaboat Foundation, Victor Braga, Team Three, Cabrillo Star, Barbara Givens, Henry Grothke, Jerry Bland, Malcolm Case, Point Loma, Charley Farrell, Crown Vic, Garland Hansen, New Year's Eve, Arthur Flagler, Coronado Bridge, Deep Bass, Fish Whack'r, Rio Verde, Tim Keller New!
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That night the wind came hard off the Pacific, an El Nino event that would blow three inches of rain onto the roofs of San Diego. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brain thorn, bench laser, owl parrots, port commissioners, cargo terminal, trophy room Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sally Rainwater, Pete Braga, San Diego, Port Commission, Imperial Beach, Jimmy Thigpen, Tunaboat Foundation, Victor Braga, Team Three, Cabrillo Star, Barbara Givens, Henry Grothke, Jerry Bland, Malcolm Case, Point Loma, Charley Farrell, Crown Vic, Garland Hansen, New Year's Eve, Arthur Flagler, Coronado Bridge, Deep Bass, Fish Whack'r, Rio Verde, Tim Keller New!
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- Pacific Beat by T. Jefferson Parker in Front Matter
- Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad on page 41
- The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad on page 41
- Red Light by T.Jefferson Parker in Front Matter
- Red Light by T. Jefferson Parker in Front Matter
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- Cold Pursuit by T. Jefferson Parker in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Dead File (Maxi Poole Mysteries) by Kelly Lange in Front Matter
- Sugar Skull: An Eve Diamond Novel (Eve Diamond Novels) by Denise Hamilton in Front Matter
- Black Water: A Merci Rayborn Novel by T. Jefferson Parker in Back Matter
- The Fallen: A Novel by T. Jefferson Parker in Front Matter
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