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Most of the hard-charging cops from The White Trilogy [BKL F 1 03] are back--Sergeant Brant, Chief Inspector Roberts, Police Constable Falls--along with a couple of late arrivals, Sergeant Porter Nash and PC McDonald. Slogging their way through a London unrecognizable from postcards, it's a wonder any of them have survived both criminal mayhem and their own self-destructive impulses. A cop killer dubbed "The Blitz" is wreaking havoc with a hammer, and as the tale rockets forward, the characters find themselves engaged in unlikely alliances: homophobe Brant with openly gay Nash; suddenly supercompetent Roberts with screw-up McDonald; and the black Falls with "Metal," a racist skinhead. While Blitz still suffers from Bruen's tendency to create two-dimensional villains and to skim the surface of emotional depths he ought to plumb, there are hints that he's softening a bit, realizing that characters with regrets are more interesting than those too emotionally dead to care. Also, this one is more satisfyingly plotted than its predecessors, ending with a bang instead of just skidding to a stop. Keir Graff
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The South East London police squad are down and out: Detective Sergeant Brant is in hot water for assaulting a police shrink, Chief Inspector Roberts' wife has died in a horrific car accident, and WPC Falls is still figuring out how to navigate her job as a black female investigator in the notorious unit. When a serial killer takes his show on the road, things get worse for all three. Nicknamed "The Blitz" by the rabid London media, the killer is aiming for tabloid immortality by killing cops in different beats around the city. Blitz represents Ken Bruen at his edgy, lethal, and sharp-tongued best, and will reward fans of his Jack Taylor novels with another astonishing, smart, and brutal vision from a writer rapidly becoming one of the best of his generation. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars one sitting trip to Londons wild side, Jun 30 2004
By Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blitz (Paperback)
The police psychiatrist asks South East Detective Sergeant Brant to talk about his tendency towards violence when the patient lights up a cigarette in the non-smoking office and head butts the shrink. As the Super lectures Chief Inspector Roberts over his failure to reign in Brant's abusiveness, the latter learns his wife died in a car accident. Super has his favorite poster boy handsome PC McDonald take home the distraught Roberts. Officer WPC "Black is Beautiful" Falls fails a key exam while goof McDonald, who almost cost her life, remains the Super's pet. Still the fair haired McDonald runs into trouble; Brant sets him up to look like a stooge and he had an accident in which he killed a bloke

While Roberts replaces his wife with alcohol as his companion, Falls turns to drugs and a skinhead for solace, and Brant is on the brink of suspension, The BLITZ murders police officer Sandra Miller. Other cops are killed and soon the South East London Police Squad knows they must stop a vicious serial killer. However, with Roberts deep into mourning and Brant in deep trouble, Porter Nash leads the investigative task force which only angers his superiors, Roberts and Brant.

Living up to its title, BLITZ, fans will feel just that way with this one sitting trip on London's wild side. Readers get a close up look at several cops struggling with personal problems when the serial killer, seeking publicity, begins a reign of terror that grips London and the audience. The ending is a delightful twist that will leave police procedural lovers seeking more urban noirs from Ken Bruen (see THE GUARDS and KILLING OF THE TINKERS).

Harriet Klausner

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bkitz . . . krieg, Jun 20 2004
By Larry Scantlebury (Ypsilanti, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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If you haven't read Ken Bruen you're in for a treat. His "White Trilogy" is extraordinary. If you want a character that will plumb the depths of your soul, read about Jack Taylor in "The Guards."

Here, in "Blitz," a series of interconnected killings target police officers. Inspector Roberts is on compassionate leave, his wife having been killed in a traffic accident. Police Officer Falls, a Black woman police officer, befriends and is befriended by a young Aryan racist named 'Metal' with unpredictable consequences. And Sergeant Brandt finds himself teamed up with the openly gay Inspector (acting) Sergeant Porter Nash.

With an opportunity to make it into a West End comedy, Bruen modulates the heat so that a few guffaws are followed by a considerable chill as something disturbing is about to occur, followed by more witty dialogue.

You have to get used to his short staccato paragraphs and chapters. The dialogue is what gets you . . . abrubt statements followed by a Murphy's-law series of events.

If there is a criticism it is that in the Roberts-Brandt novels, there is not enough about Roberts or Brandt. Yet as I mentioned above, the story of Jack Taylor as told in "The Guards" shows great depth of character so if there is superficiality in Roberts-Brandt and they seem short of substance, it is by Ken Bruen's choice.

One of the best writers around. Certainly well worth the effort. 5+ stars. Larry Scantlebury

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