- Audio CD
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (Aug 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743524896
- ISBN-13: 978-0743524896
- Product Dimensions: 14.6 x 13 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 222 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
The Karps kick the rubes, but don't emerge unscathed in the 14th installment of the successful Karp/Ciampi series. As in previous novels, the ball gets rolling with the meddling of the brainy and unstable Marlene Ciampi, who against her better judgment ("Don't get involved, tattoo it on your forehead, Ciampi!") falls for a New York neighbor's sob story about a long-simmering family feud in a West Virginia coal town. The sudden savage murders back in West Virginia of the neighbor and her daughter and her labor-agitator husband bring both Marlene and her husband, Butch Karp, down to the boonies in their legal capacity. Their teenage daughter, nun-in-training Lucy, falls hard for the neighbor's son, and the 10-year-old twins, Zik and Zak, now growing into distinct personalities, come along for the ride. As in other novels in the series, Marlene's antics bring danger to her family's doorstep and beyond this time resulting in a real Karp family tragedy. When disaster strikes, the ever volatile Marlene goes over the edge and calls in her trusty Vietnamese thug, Tran, and his gang of gold-hungry goons, with grisly results. While the novel displays Tanenbaum's trademark humor and adept plotting, the series has definitely taken an ominous twist with this book. Marlene (never a model of sanity) is, per usual, talking to her dogs, but now they're talking back to her. The author (who seems to greatly enjoy his book-length ruminations on the dynamics of long-lived marriage) has pulled off a coup: fans of the series will breathlessly await his next book, just to see if the Karp family can actually stand itself any more.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
After 14 outings, Chief Assistant DA Butch Karp has his toughest case yet: tracking down the murderer of a teamster who was gunning for union presidency.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely fascinating,
By A Customer
This review is from: Absolute Rage (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the first Tanenbaum book I have read, and halfway through found myself wishing that the author had written a series with the same main characters. To my delight, I discovered that there are 14 books in the Karp/Cianni series, and tonight I ordered the first 5 - I am looking forward to reading all of them! What fun to discover a "new" author!
2.0 out of 5 stars
My First and Last Tanenbaum Experience,
By Hey Lobo (Boca Raton, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Absolute Rage (Hardcover)
I have come to the conclusion that there should be a warning on books that have ongoing storylines. I would never have purchased this one.My apologies to the Tanenbaum fans but I was in a hurry to purchase a book to read and I grabbed this one. Having not been familiar with the Karp/Chiampi series, I can only say my first experience was terrible. The Karp/Chiampi characters are about as off the wall as one can get; that coupled with "Mr. MIT" Dan Heeney living in Hicksville, WA, tying up per chance on a train/the beach with a super linguist/devote Catholic, Papa Jewish DA, Momma "Not Sure I want to Be a Mom or Mobster." Please. How much drivel is one expected to take? Being a practicing Catholic as well, I am still not sure what sort of light Mr. Tanenbaum is attempting to shed on Catholicism with his portrayal of Lucy and his statement that she ran into a typicl dark Church that had been "Vatican Two-ed". I find the term offensive and can only state that the last two Parish's to which I have belonged are bright, airy, inspriring structures. (Although I do appreciate his point, generalizations detract from credibiblity.) At the ending I expected this may be a sequel, that and the references to Marlene "One Eye", or was it "St." Lucy stoking the opium pipe for "Uncle Tran." Please. Are we to expect a comic Book Sereies next? Perhaps from now on I should just take my time in the bookstore...
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another first-class atom bomb for Tanenbaum,
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This review is from: Absolute Rage (Hardcover)
I seriously doubt if Tanenbaum could write a book that wasn't an absolutely I-couldn't-put-the-book-down read. This is one of his best. It starts calmly enough, and gradually buillds up to a brain bashing crescendo as it zeroes in on some genuine hillbilly killers who hold an entire region of West Virginia in terror and who have involved Butch and his family by killing a friend.Lucy is by now a young woman and happily is more deeply involved in the plot than she has been in quite some time. Needless to say, altho' Marlene starts out as a calm, civilized type, she reverts easily to the bull-bashing physical type that seems to be ingrained in her psyche. No fan of Tanenbaum's will be dissatisfied with this book. Unlike many authors who write successive series, he doesn't spend page after page telling about the past or describing the personalities of his characters. He lets that information develop as part of the story, which is a real relief. About the only thing I could find to strongly disagree with is Tanenbaum's tendency to make Butch overly idealistic. I think Butch's final assessment of the situation in West Virginia is far closer to reasonable than his puritanical view of how it was achieved. I can't wait for another in this series.
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