Cold Persuit (2003 – T Jefferson Parker
General Information
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Title: Cold Persuit
Author: Jefferson Parker
Read By: Patrick G. Lawlor
Copyright: 2003
Genre: Suspense
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Abridged: Yes
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Number of MP3s: 5
Total Duration: 6:11:44
Total MP3 Size: 170.21
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Book Description
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Amazon.com Review
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 –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
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. –This text refers to the
Hardcover edition. See
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