Backlash - Hardcover

Gosling, Paula

3.78

54 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385249950 ISBN 13: 9780385249959

Publisher: Doubleday, 1989

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Jack Stryker and a beautiful, red-haired federal agent work against time to track down a killer, who is brutally murdering police officers, before they become the next names on the list

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About the Author:

Paula Gosling was born in Detroit and moved permanently to England in 1964. She worked as a copywriter and a freelance copy consultant before becoming a full-time writer in 1979. She published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and Monkey Puzzle, the first in her Jack Stryker series, won a Gold Dagger. She is a past Chairman of the CWA.

From Publishers Weekly:

Gosling's ninth whodunit doesn't measure up to its predecessors (which include award-winners Monkey Puzzle and Running Duck ). In a city called Grantham, a sniper kills police officers and escapes each time without a trace. Lt. Jack Stryker and the other detectives are at an impasse when Dana Marchant from the Justice Department arrives at police headquarters to investigate the murder of an undercover FBI agent. Sharing information with Dana, Stryker and his partner keep the computer hopping as they look for clues in the lives of the victims, but then the two men are wounded by the ghostly shooter and temporarily sidelined. Later there is a showdown in which Dana shines at canny sleuthing and hand-to-hand combat. The author tries for realism with details about the cops' romances and intense friendships. But high-flown prose and unconvincing characters dilute the effects, hinting that an able storyteller had an off day.
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