WEB Griffin - BOH08 Final Justice 00-26.nfo
General Information
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Title: Final Justice
Author: WEB Griffin
Read By: Patrick G. Lawlor
Copyright: 2003
Audiobook Copyright: 2003
Genre: Mystery / Police
Series Name: Badge of Honor
Position in Series: 08
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Source: 13 CD's
Condition: Very Good
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 26
Total Duration: 15:58:08
Total MP3 Size: 439 MB
Ripped/Encoded by: semi-one/Cakewalk
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.0, v2.3, tagged for ipod
Book Description
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Book Synopsis
Just as with his remarkable military novels, millions of readers have been captured by the rich characters and vivid realism of Griffin's police dramas. Now, in Final Justice, Detective Matt Payne -- newly promoted to Sergeant and assigned to Homicide -- finds himself in the middle of three major assignments. The first, a fatal shooting at a fast-food restaurant, seems simple, but rapidly becomes complicated. The second begins complicated and only gets more so, as Payne becomes involved with a local guru who has fled the country, leaving behind the mutilated body of his girlfriend in a trunk. And, as if that weren't enough, the self-absorbed star of a series of improbable movies comes into town -- and it is his presence that will complicate Payne's life most of all. Filled with color and detail and plots as real as the headlines, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself.
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Publishers Weekly
If God is truly in the details, then Griffin must be the pope of police procedurals. Want to know what paragraph of the Pennsylvania Criminal Code you violate if you use a flashing blue light attached to your car to get through traffic? Or what the chances are of a patrolman or detective passing the Philadelphia Police Department's exam for promotion to sergeant? Or what happens to the badge worn on the chest of an officer killed in action, after the funeral? All of this-and much, much more-is revealed in the eighth data-heavy entry in Griffin's Badge of Honor series (The Murderers, The Investigators, etc.). What's even more amazing is that all these factoids don't slow down the story's considerable momentum for a minute. Nor do they keep Griffin's gritty cops from convincing us of their individuality. Matt Payne, a detective with the Philadelphia police force, has just been promoted and transferred to Homicide. The cases he gets during his first few days at the post are a rich mix of mayhem entangling all strata of Philadelphia society: an apparently simple shooting in a fast food outlet that turns out to be almost unsolvable; a savage rape and murder with some serious anti-cop political overtones; an extradition case involving a fugitive murderer from France; and, for comic relief, the supervision of a visiting movie star who wants to make his police pictures more authentic. What holds it all together is Griffin's infectious respect for and fascination with police work.
From Booklist
In Griffin's eighth novel in his popular Badge of Honor series involving the Philadelphia police force, Detective Sergeant Matthew Payne is working on three cases. In the first, a kitchen supervisor and a cop are murdered at a fast-food restaurant. The second is a case of rape and murder, and the third concerns a suspect who has fled the country, leaving behind a trunk containing the mummified body of his girlfriend. This case is particularly provocative, since the fugitive sends back mocking postcards from his hiding place. The storyline also takes readers down interesting byways that deal with Payne's involvement with two women, all of which, of course, adds a bit of spice to the narrative. As in many of his other novels--32 in total and counting--Griffin's description of police procedure rings with authenticity. He lets his readers come close to experiencing the real thing without having to duck bullets.
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