- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Onyx (MM); 1st mmpb edition (Jun 12 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451193288
- ISBN-13: 978-0451193285
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #459,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Like a canvas by Bosch, the frenetic 10th installment in the popular Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series (Irresistible Impulse, etc.) is all foreground, a three-ring circus of mayhem and mystery. Here Tanenbaum pits Deputy DA Karp, his detective cronies Raney and Fulton and his security-expert wife, Marlene, against an amorphous army of Palestinians terrorizing New York. When Arab youths are implicated in the murders of two elderly Jews, Karp finds himself having to placate local Arab and Jewish leaders and at the same time convince the brass that the crimes point to a conspiracy. Meanwhile, a Mexican hit man linked to two jailed drug dealers is threatening to shoot up the metropolis and murder Karp's rival, Homicide Bureau head Roland Hrcany. Back home, Marlene is caffeinating herself to delirium to balance work and family. Then the teenage sister of one of the Arab suspects, on the lam after stabbing a pimp, lands improbably in a shelter for battered women run by Marlene's friend. Should Marlene inform Karp, or protect the girl? As always, there's much to cheer in Tanenbaum's work: quirky characters, snappy cop-talk, even a slam-bang car chase through a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn, and the rousing action resonates with deeper themes as Karp, a lapsed Jew, tentatively accepts his ethnicity. But the constant jumps between subplots are wearying, the large casts of racist cops and racist terrorists run together and the resolution is strained as absolutely everyone is tied together into a too-perfect knot. Mystery Guild selection. (June) FYI: Media-alert readers will recognize Tanenbaum as the lawyer for a teenage defendant on trial in Delaware for killing her newborn baby.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Deputy D.A. Butch Karp returns in Robert K. Tanenbaum's newest legal thriller!
When an elderly Jewish shopkeeper is murdered and a racial epithet is scrawled beneath his body, police are hard-pressed to find the killer before the crime escalates into a media circus. While investigating, Butch discovers that a second murder--this time a cop--is related to the case. As racial tensions in the city arise, Butch and his family find themselves caught in the crossfire of a merciless killer.
When an elderly Jewish shopkeeper is murdered and a racial epithet is scrawled beneath his body, police are hard-pressed to find the killer before the crime escalates into a media circus. While investigating, Butch discovers that a second murder--this time a cop--is related to the case. As racial tensions in the city arise, Butch and his family find themselves caught in the crossfire of a merciless killer.
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He thought he would get more pleasure from killing the Jews, not that he was actually doing it for pleasure, no, it was a necessary act, a political act, he knew that, still . . . he had expected to feel something more. Read the first page
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing effort by author,
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This review is from: Reckless Endangerment (Paperback)
Having previously read and enjoyed IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE byRobert K. Tanenbaum, I looked forward to listening to RECKLESS ENDEARMENT . . . I further wanted to catch-up on what was happening with two characters i had "met" in the previous book, Butch Barp and Marlene Ciampi . . . they discover themselves working on two sides of the same case when several homicides rock downtown manhattan . . . but was I ever disappointed! . . . it is an excessively convoluted thriller that starts well, then gets bogged down with too many characters and subplots . . . I also didn't find it very believable . . . I'll take a "pass" on other books by Tannenbaum; i.e., unless somebody tells me that I just caught the author on a rare bad day/effort.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Now You Have To Pay Attention,
By Untouchable (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Reckless Endangerment (Paperback)
You've really got to keep your wits about you when you're reading this story. There are about 5 different threads of storylines that are gradually woven together tighter and tighter until something just has to give. And when it does, the effects are devastating.It's New York City, 1981 and the racial tensions between the Arabs and the Jews are simmering. A plot is being hatched and put into place by a small Arab group to start a holy war by bombing the Jewish part of town. Separate to this, yet delicately connected are a couple of Mexican brothers who have been arrested and charged with murdering an undercover officer during a drug bust. This is where Deputy D.A. Butch Karp comes into the picture, he's interested in getting a conviction, you see. Marlene Ciampi, Butch's wife is a private detective, specialising in protecting abused women and is also tenuously drawn into the picture after an Arab girl flees the family home. Now just add a murder or two, stir and let the fun begin.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wild Ride,
By Lt. William Calley (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Reckless Endangerment (Paperback)
by Robert Tanenbaum - second in the series, but this doesn't interfere with NYC thriller that takes you into the DAs office, drug deals in Harlem, Political intrigue in palestine, violent gangs in Mexico, and how they come together for an thrilling, however unlikely, story.
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