WEB Griffin - BOH07 The Investigators 00-27.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Investigators
Author: WEB Griffin
Read By: Michael Russoto
Copyright: 1997
Audiobook Copyright: 1998
Genre: Mystery / Police
Series Name: Badge of Honor
Position in Series: 07
Publisher: Books on Tape
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Source: 13 Tapes
Condition: Very Good
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 27
Total Duration: 18:25:31
Total MP3 Size: 507 MB
Ripped By: Unknown NMR
Ripped With: Cool Edit 2000
Encoded With: Cool Edit 2000
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.0, v2.3, tagged for ipod
Book Description
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The Barnes & Noble Review
W.E.B. Griffin has written about war, and in his 'Badge of Honor' series,
of which Investigators is the seventh installment, he writes specifically
about peace. Or, at least, the peace of the inner city and the cops
who work and play within those cities. His prose is clean and direct.
His story is a saga of various families and of Philadelphia.
This novel will take you by surprise. Investigators creeps up quietly,
then grabs you by the throat when you're least expecting it. It is a
slow build in the first quarter of the novel, as Griffin spends much
time establishing his network of characters and their various actions
and motivations. I spent the first 90 pages of "Investigators" wondering
when the story would take off. Griffin shifts characters and points
of view continuously. But his characters are compelling and real, and
his Philadelphia seems solid and absolutely true to life.
Rest assured, however, that when this novel does take off, it soars
like a rocket, illuminating all of its dark corners. Investigators opens
with several seemingly unrelated events. A young woman, Susan Reynolds,
schedules a trip to Philadelphia to see an old friend for a family party.
While she's there, she plans on seeing another woman, Jennie, who, knowing
that Susan is an Appeals Officer in Social Services, mysteriously begs
her for help.
Meanwhile, in another section of Philadelphia, a cop on a narcotics
bust shows his stripes. He accepts a bribe from one of the perpetrators
and, as additional payment, rapes the perpetrator's girlfriend. Enter
Matt Payne, a youngdetective still hot from his recent heroics. Payne
also attends the party for which Susan Reynolds has come to Philadelphia.
When they meet, the attraction seems mutual at first. But Susan is standoffish,
and leaves the gathering alone. Later Matt discovers that there is some
suspicion that Susan has been kidnapped.
He begins his own informal investigation of the alleged kidnapping,
because he was believed to have left the party with her. But has Susan
really been kidnapped? Even while Matt is questioned by the FBI regarding
the missing woman, he is brought in to investigate the rumors of dirty
cops in the Narcotics Division.
Suddenly, the story explodes across the page as an aging Mafia don goes
to ask a favor of Matt Payne's father. The favor is a simple one: The
mafioso wants Payne senior to convince his daughter, Amy, a doctor,
to see the mafioso's granddaughter, Cynthia. As the favor is agreed
to, and Matt Payne's father calls his daughter, setting up the medical
consultation, we meet Cynthia Longwood. Not only is she the granddaughter
of a well-known but unconvicted mobster, she is the young woman in that
motel room who was raped by a dirty cop at the opening of the novel.
Confused yet? Thankfully, Griffin's novel takes off at an extraordinary
pace at this point. The many threads of the story come together as Matt
Payne is thrust into center stage by the interweaving circumstances
of this complex but fascinating plot. Griffin is a master of the slow
build, but always there's a terrific story turn that accompanies the
pressure-cooker milieu of cops and their families, and the internal
politics of the police force. For sheer twists, turns, and surprises,
Synopsis
The latest gripping installment in W.E.B. Griffin's bestselling Philadelphia
police force series, featuring Special Operations Detective Matt Payne.-
Annotation
A perfectly typed bomb threat makes its way to the Philadelphia Police
Department--the calling card of a political assassin on the loose. It
couldn't happen at a worse time, since a rogue cop has brought corruption
into the force. The police can't trust their own people as seconds tick
away toward an explosion that could rock the nation.
From the Publisher
In The Investigators, circumstances force Special Operations detective
Matt Payne and his colleagues into the middle of two major cases simultaneously-
. With the commission of a brutal crime, an ongoing investigation into
a squad of dirty cops suddenly grows ugly, and Payne must track down
a key piece of evidence before things become even worse. At the same
time, a woman he meets at a party may turn out to be a vital link to
a group of urban terrorists, and if he doesn't follow it up now, the
lead will disappear. During the next few days, as he juggles both cases
and an increasingly complicated personal life, Payne finds himself drawn
deeper and deeper into the circles of some very dangerous characters,
and soon comes to realize that it may take all of his skills not only
to prevail - but perhaps simply to survive.
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