Angel Eyes: Amazon.ca: Loren Estleman: Books

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"Hard-edged, relentless, and satisfying. Amos Walker is dauntless, incorruptible, and underpaid, which is just what a private eye should be".

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Ann Maringer is a go-go dancer with a problem; her life is in danger, and she's certain that her end is coming soon. Her only hope is Amos Walker, a hot-tempered Detroit-based private eye, with a caustic wit and a talent for getting into trouble.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Plot, Excellent Characterization..., Mar 25 2003

By	SereneNight (California, USA) - See all my reviews

I listened to the unabridged audio version of this novel, and I really enjoyed it: with two caveats: the narrator read the novel WAY too fast, so that sometimes I felt myself wanting to ask him to SLOW DOWN. The second problem I had with this novel, was the recording. Either I received a flawed version, or there was something wrong with the print run. When it said to reverse to the other side, and adjust the balance control, sometimes, the side which I reversed to would be incorrect. (This appeared to be only on one tape, and the others functioned perfectly, so I was STILL able to enjoy the book, it just was a mite confusing to figure out which side I needed to be on).

Onto the plot: This is a typical Amos Walker novel. Amos is a tough-talking, one-liner spewing Private Investigator living in Detroit. He is hired by a blue-eyed stripper to investigate her own disappearance (?). Yes that's right. What follows is a series of events involving a pair of evil policemen, a Union Boss, and a corrupt ex-judge. In typical Amos form, Amos bulldogs his way through the mystery with some unexpected results.

A great addition to your Amos Walker collection... Boy I wish I could have as much imagination as Loren D. The one-liners alone make this story!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Plodding private eye yarn, Jul 8 2002

By	F. J. Harvey "Cricket ,country music and a go... (Birmingham England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the second volume in the Amos Walker series and begins exceptionall well,when Walker is engaged by an exotic dancer in a seedy Detroit club to investigate a missing person-herself.She is in fear of her life and hires Walker,paying him with an expensive diamond ring.He gets involved in an altercation when someone tries to take it away from him and who turns up dead in the now missing dancers apartment.Walker is soon up to the neck in bodies,union politics and missing judges,coorupt investigators and policemen who hate his guts.There is abreak from city sordidness with a trip to bucolic Huron but even here death and the curse of gentrification and urbanization looms large.

The problem is the plot revelations that are handled clumsily and in an almost parodic way and that undercut fine writing and sharp characterization Estlemnan got way better at this later in his career and I would urge those eager to discover Walker to enter at a later point in the series

Its not his best by a long chalk.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing early entry from a strong writer, Nov 10 2001

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A number of the later books in Estleman's Amos Walker series are really great, but the second volume in the series is a disappointment. The characters and plot are hard to keep straight, the hardboiled narration is so exaggerated and incessant that it comes off almost as parodic (clearly not the author's intent), and I found myself having to force my way through the second half of the book even though it's only 240 pages long. On top of everything else, the iBooks edition is full of embarrassing typos -- did no one proofread it?

Buy THE WITCHFINDER if you want a good Walker novel. This one is a dud.

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