- Hardcover: 284 pages
- Publisher: WW Norton
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393047180
- ISBN-13: 978-0393047189
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
dark,
By A Customer
A dark, dark view of human nature. Written with sufficient skill to keep me turning the pages through to the finish, but the complete lack of a payoff left me furious for having wasted my time on this book. In the end I did something highly unusual for me, I chucked it in the fireplace in frustration and anger.I need characters I can root for; good guys who win in the end. There was no such character in this book.
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Deep Noir,
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Another winning entry of Bill James with Harpur and Iles,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Top Banana A Harpur And Iles Mystery (Hardcover)
I have read every entry in James' series starring Harpur and Iles, and loved every one. His villains (hard to distinguish from the coppers) are the best in the business--and their dialogue sparkles! You can almost hear Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine sparring with each other had any of these been made into movies(why haven't they?) And Harpur and the rapier tongued Iles, they are absolutely marvelous--a couple of coppers not above planting evidence(in earlier books) breaking and entering and so on, all in the name of justice(?)I have been big fan of Elmore Leonard for years and still am, but when it comes to dialogue and witty repartee, James is in a CLASS BY HIMSELF!!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Deep Noir,
By James B - Published on Amazon.com
I'm hooked on these Harpur and Iles mysteries. They are unlike anything else out there in the genre of contemporary tough Brit dicks... even the best of the authors(Rankin, Harvey)pale in comparison. & Top Banana by Bill James might be the best of the bunch(pun intended)he's written. The truly weird relationship Harpur and Iles have is almost perfectly mirrored in the two drug lords Mansel Shale and Alf Ivis. Shale and Iles can see into the future or to put it another way they can telescope current events into accurate guesses of what will happen next, or who is behind a murder. I've been absolutely zealous pushing these books on my friends to read and often they'll say the books are too dark or too weird but hey, post-9-11 it's all too dark and weird so there's this congruency, this perfect fit. Try it. It's a 50-50 proposition Bill James either scores deep or is totally wrong for you.There's certainly nothing middling about this authors work.
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Another part of a superior series,
By Pitoucat - Published on Amazon.com
This is the thirteenth book in the Harpur and Iles series, begun in 1985 and starring the sarcastic DCS and devious ACC of an unspecified provincial police force. Mandy, a just-teenage drugs courier has been killed in a shoot-out between rival gangs of dealers. The Chief Constable wants infiltration of the syndicates, but it soon appears that the sergeant he nominates for the task may already be in the pay of one of the gangs. Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles, as ever, have their own, different plans for confronting the drug barons.Bill James excels in writing about the murky interface between coppers and villains in a style which is unique, and totally realistic, if cynical. His treatment of dialogue is especially brilliant. The only problem is that, reading just one novel is a bit like watching only a couple of episodes of a TV soap: there are so many continuing sub-plots involving the same characters, that you need to read the entire series of books in order to extract the maximum from each one. So, why don't you? |
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