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Summary: I enjoyed the book
Review: A serial killer story with a twist and a post-Cold War spy novel. Just when you think you know what will happen everything changes. Hard to put down.
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Summary: Suspense is an understatement
Review: Bravo to James Elliotts. A brilliant, suspenseful first novel. Hard to put down. A little predictable but adds to the inability to put it down.
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Summary: predictable light entertainment
Review: Cold Cold Heart has just everything - blood-thirsty mutiliations, rogue KGB defectors, FBI and CIA goons, a hard-bitten and disillusioned hero, AND a stunning beautiful Porsche-driving gun-toting ex-cop-turned-journalist sidekick. Though not breaking any new ground, Cold Cold Heart does what it sets out to do extremely well. It's gripping, fast paced and entertaining, and a cut above the average airport thriller. Mike Culley is very much like Lee Child's Jack Reacher character - if you like him, read this while you're waiting for the next Jack Reacher book.
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Summary: Superb!
Review: I have a new favourite author and his name is James Elliott! I loved this book, edge of your seat suspense all the way through. Unfortunately I could only find one other book by him. Are there any others or does Mr. Elliott write under another pen. Can't wait for more by this terrific author!
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Summary: Superb!
Review: I have a new favourite author and his name is James Elliott! I loved this book, edge of your seat suspense all the way through. Unfortunately I could only find one other book by him. Are there any others or does Mr. Elliott write under another pen. Can't wait for more by this terrific author!
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Summary: Among the Greats
Review: I have read this book at least three times. My father gave it to me about two years ago. I remember I couldn't put it down and for days later parts of it kept coming back to me. Not so long ago I started thinking about it again after reading some John Connolly and James Patterson and had to locate the book and read it again, that's the kind of effect this book will have on you. Elliot is up there on a pedestal with Connolly and Patterson and Harris with this book.
It does have some graphic detail and some very gruesome killings but what good is a book without detail??
Mike Culley was a Government agent but is now serving time for lying to congress. His wife killed herself while he was inside and he blames not only himself but holds a serious grudge against those who left him in there. He has a daughter that he has not seen, only because he would not let her come to the prison to visit him there. He gets his chance to be free early when the CIA (his old work buddies) come asking him to track a counterfeiter John Malik, which is the secret identity of a defector that he ran as an Agent in Place in Moscow before getting him out. The CIA convince Culley that he is the only one who can track Malik after he disappears with a wagon load of blank currency paper. They do not however tell him that they also suspect him of being a particularly gruesome and Cold-Blooded killer, one that has been cutting up and mutilating College Co-eds. So reluctantly Culley takes the case, but soon finds out what's really going on when a reporter recognises him. *Enter ex-cop Julie Houser* Together they try to track Malik down but the Plot can only get thicker. As their relationship develops, Malik finds out who is after him and sets about destroying Culley's life by taking the one and only thing that Culley holds dear.
Set at a blistering pace, Elliot doesn't let up for a second and the end result is a book that you will not be able to put down once you begin. Read it and See ;-)
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Summary: His 2nd new book has to be rated below average
Review: I have to advise readers that J.E.'s 2nd book NOWHERE TO HIDE is not as good as his 1st one. Cold,Cold Heart did have a more logical plot than NOWHERE TO HIDE. It was very good of J.E.'s 2nd book until Chapter 32, the plot since then became so ridiculous, and the characters' behaviors also developed into stupider formats. How Bass, the female witness under police protection, could still go out at night to dance with detective Kirby? What kind professional attitude of this? If J.E. tried to find twist in the plot, this was a very bad thinking as bad as the common thinking logic of most female mystery writers. From then on, all the scenes became so ridiculous and chapter after chapter naturally become stupider. All we could find were a stupid female witness protected by a stupid detective, chased by a 0.5 million dollars marketed worth but even stupider Cubano assassin. We cannot not find this book on Amazon yet, but I have to let other readers know this in advance anyway
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Summary: Flawless description and non-stop suspense
Review: I went to the University of Virginia for my undergraduate degree, and the description of both the University and the town that Elliott uses is incredible. Sights from the area bring back the mysteries and horror of the novel, sometimes sending shivers down my spine. This novel is another serial killer hunt, but it's different in one important way. It's really believeable, which makes it in someways disturbing. A quality that most authors should try and achieve with putting the pen on the paper. A must read!
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Summary: AWESOME!!!
Review: ive read hagberg, weber and even clancy, but no one has even come close to this character.i even named my rottweiler after him;"cully". it's about time some one didnt play by the rules and mike culley broke every rule possible. from stealing back his harley to pulling the trigger in the end. this is a character every american wants to be...family,america,self! thanks mr elliot. looking forward to another 'culley' adventure...
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Summary: Fasten Your Seatbelt Before Reading
Review: Never have I read a book that keeps you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. James Elliott has a way of putting the reader right in the middle of the action. So fasten your seatbelt because you are in for a ride of a life time. This is by far the best edge of your seat, heart pounding, fingernail biting book I have ever read
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