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Summary: Why did I spend time with this
Review: This is a book I call throw-away. You read it once and never think about it again. Beside of each having a different skill to bring along, all of them are the same person, just different names. Its like a Mission: Impossible squad, the author made sure at least one character could have everything covered. This is not worth any amount of money. Sleepers was good, for fiction, but this is just trash!
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Summary: Finally, characters that deserve to appear in sequels!
Review: Carcaterra's character development is excellent. His descriptive passages are satisfying, and his dialogue is first-rate. The plot is mesmerizing. The "best of the best" cops who have been relegated to the trash heap, showing compassion and caring that is heart-rending...this book grabs me and leaves me wishing for more, more, more. I am a reader who becomes tired of knowing so much about the characters that continually appear in many best-sellers. But Carcaterra has given us real people, fleshed out, who could demand my attention for many more books. He could add to the Apaches, some of the new ex-cops who are injured and discarded daily. Don't read this next line if you haven't read the book! I thought of many ways, soap-opera style, but more believable, in ways that the ones who were killed, are actually in hiding for the next call for avenging or for saving victims. The ending gives me hope that Lorenzo Carcaterra has an idea for a fantastic sequel! These are characters that can make a difference in the world. (And much more interesting than the predictable Dr. Kay Scarpetta.)
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: If you read for strictly entertainment, I would highly recommend this book. It never stops. Almost like Mission Impossible, but the group is made up of all ex-cops who were injured on the job. They each have their own specialty. disabilities. Sometimes hard to read based on the graphic brutality. I loved the book, read it in one day and can't wait to see what he comes up with next. I'd love to see a series of books in the same vain as The Destroyer series.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: Disabled cops banding together to bring down an evildoer--an interesting premise, but one poorly executed here. It seems to have been written with "movie deal" in mind: there are product placements built in, suggested soundtrack material (Ry Cooder weighs in with two mentions), and even that cliched bad guy you think has been killed but really hasn't.I was not impressed with the writing (or the editing). When a vehicle's color is described as "pea-green" on one page and different and unrelated vehicle's color is described as "pea-green" some 10 or 20 pages later, one get's the feeling that the author is painting with a limited palette. Likewise when the only two baby oufits described in the book both happen to be Snoopy designs--or is that just another product placement? Almost all the investigative info the Apaches need is conveniently dumped in their collective lap by their "connections," so that they are free to move easil! y from one confrontation to another. I had a hard time suspending my disbelief. Of course, your results may vary . . .
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Summary: Wow
Review: I bought this yesterday, and read it yesterday. An excellent story in the same vein as WEB Griffin's Badge of Honor Series. I hope there are more where this came from.
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Summary: Even better than Sleepers
Review: Apaches was a well written book that held your interest from the first page. As you read this book, you can't help but try to cast celebrities in the roles because this book sounds like an action film. Lorenzo Carcaterra is a very talented author, and I can't wait to see what he comes out with next.
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Summary: WHAT HAPPENED TO HELLS KITCHEN?
Review: This book is almost totally different from the other two.BUT its good how he can still charm us with the way he writes. I don't think this book is crap, its just that you're so used to reading about MR.CARCATERRA himself.I still say 'Mr Carcaterra ,I loved the book.Good luck with the next one.'
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Summary: Implausible urban myth drives this crappy novel
Review: There's nothing wrong with basing a story on a myth, but it has to be at least a marginally plausible myth, unless you're writing elves-and-wizards fantasy. The idea that cocaine smugglers would at great expense systematically acquire infants, kill them, eviscerate them and stuff them full of merchandise is so implausible that only an idiot could suspend disbelief long enough to finsh this exploitative tripe. Problem: for the cost of using a dead baby to smuggle cocaine, the smuggler could simply bribe a corrupt Customs inspector and drive a truckload across the border. Problem: dead babies look dead. If a female smuggler was going to keep a baby swaddled up enough to keep fellow airplane passengers from noticing that the baby was dead, she could just as easily use a doll. Problem: the babies were supposedly used for three roundtrips across the border, and dead things start to smell bad very quickly. The next time the author decides to base a book on an urban myth, I hope he'll pick the one about the old lady drying her poodle in the microwave. That one is at least somewhat plausible.
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Summary: Not his best, but still entertaining.....
Review: When I bought this book, I was looking forward to being entertained. I was not disappointed. There are parts of the story that are a little far fetched. And I thought that it took 300 pages to setup the story and only twenty to end it, but it was a great twenty. Most reviews of this book mention Sleepers. Well if I wanted somthing like Sleepers I would have read the book again. I enjoyed reading something differant from Mr. Carcaterra.
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Summary: A quick easy read
Review: I really can't understand some of the bad reviews this book has got such as 3, 2 and 1. While Apaches may not be a literary master-piece, which book to day is, it certainly doesn't warrant such low scores -- and to personally attack the author - well that is sure infantile. I found the book easy to read and as it is a book of fiction - please read it in that context.
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