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King City (2012)

by Lee Goldberg(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Thomas & Mercer

review 1: Downloaded this one for the plane ride home after a long weekend. All I wanted was a fun good-guy-beats-bad-guy tale, and on one level that's what I got. I wasn't expecting to turn my brain completely off, though. The protagonist was a laughably white-washed knight in shining armor motivated by duty who changes not at all by the end of the story (except that he's banging a different chick - talk about wish fulfillment on the part of the author). The conflicts are ill-defined, the background characters two-dimensional, and the crime-solving elements completely unbelievable. The more I've thought about King City, the madder I've gotten that I wasted my airplane read on this shlock.
review 2: King City effortlessly blends the archetypal gunslinger of the Old West,... more riding into the lawless town to clean up the bad guys, with a modern tale of police corruption, urban decay and neglect....It’s a fast-paced exploration of the decline of the blue-collar industrial heartland of America, and the cop who will not stand by and let that happen on his watch. Fans of the late Robert B Parker will delight in King City, which has the same great dialogue and nicely judged wry humour....A sit-down, straight-through read. Superb. less

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