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Private Investigator, Joe Copps case pulls him into the corporate halls and back lots of Hollywood, behind the glamorous facade of the movie industry, where subjects of a stakeout are murdered. After an undercover narcotics officer is nearly killed, Copp is charged as an accomplice to murder, and is thrown into a real-life Hollywood scenario where death becomes the favorite plot device for the whole bloody show. Pendleton has a hold of something very fundamental here as if he had seen the basic template from which all P.I.s are cut, a truly unexpected pleasure.Rave Reviews
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About the Author:
Known for his lean, fast-paced writing, Don Pendleton created the original Executioner Series of thirty-eight novels. Later works include his Joe Copp and Ashton Ford mystery series. Pendleton published over one hundred novels, and the nonfiction book, To Dance With Angels, written with his wife, Linda Pendleton. He died in 1995.
From Publishers Weekly:
Pendleton's Los Angeles private eye, Joe Copp ( Copp for Hire ) narrates a fast-moving story with plenty of suspense. Confined to a wheelchair, Albert Moore pays the detective handsomely for a simple jobphotographing people entering a shop called Nu-Cal Designsbut the assignment takes on frighteningly lurid complications. A bomb destroys the shop, Moore and the chauffeur of his limousine; glossy actress Melissa Moore Franklin survives the blast, however, and runs to ask Copp for protection from invisible killers. Himself a suspect in the crime, the detective is in danger from the police and the cunning perpetrators who keep murdering anyone in their way. Learning that the man who called himself Moore has been identified as movie mogul Bernard Wiseman, Copp interviews his ex-wife Justine and gets a line on the relationship between the real Moore and Charles Franklin, former and present spouses of Melissa. The twists double and redouble, tying the private investigator into stringent knots and casting him, at length, into the hands of merciless conspirators. The author sustains the heat that keeps Copp "on fire" throughout the rousing adventure of a likable hero whose daring is matched by a lusty sense of humor.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherBackinprint.Com
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0595153216
- ISBN 13 9780595153213
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages228
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