Shooter - Hardcover

Kinkopf, Eric

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399137726 ISBN 13: 9780399137723

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1993

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Up against a ruthless and corrupt police chief, police officer Stan Kochinski discovers a conspiracy that extends beyond the chief and throughout Detroit's entire government. 12,500 first printing.

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From Publishers Weekly:

A two-time Pulitzer nominee, newspaper reporter Kinkopf knows well the grittiness of the inner city, and his fiction debut is a corker. Detroit's control-freak police chief is leading some community pillars (the mayor, a prosecuting attorney, a judge) in a scheme to save their political fortunes by having drug dealers killed. Only the chief knows the "shooter." After a year of assassinations, the chief sets up Julius Cooper, young drug kingpin, for the slaying of an 11-year-old boy, a crime that has shocked even Detroit. Det. Stan Kochinski and his old partner Pete Dawlson are given three days to come up with a suspect, and it's clear the chief wants Cooper. The various power struggles--with the cabal, the PD, the drug world and the Detroit Free Press (for which Kinkopf has written)--are seamlessly woven together as Kinkopf leads us on a grim, lethal, wholly absorbing chase. Kochinski's affair with the chief's wife assumes crucial relevance at the satisfying ending, and the surprise identity of the assassin doesn't disappoint, either. Kinkopf is a writer to watch.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

When 11-year-old Rickey Jefferson is shot in the head with a gun belonging to drug dealer Julius Cooper, who swears that it was stolen from him months ago, it's a sign that danger is afoot in Detroit. Four of the highest-ranking members of the justice system have formed a conspiracy to rid the city of its crime leaders, and they have found a man to do their bidding. Investigation of the resulting violence leads Detective Stan Kochinski into a direct and dangerous confrontation with the hired killer. First-time novelist Kinkopf uses character development and the mean streets of Detroit to enhance his story. The book is well done, but this sort of thing has been done before. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/92.
- Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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