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You Can't Stop Me (2010)

by Max Allan Collins(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0786021349 (ISBN13: 9780786021345)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Pinnacle

series

You Can't Stop Me

review 1: This book has an interesting, but highly improbable premise. J.C. Harrow, a former small town Iowa sheriff and current criminalist for the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation, is on special assignment at the Iowa State Fair. He is assigned to monitor the crowd during a Presidential visit. He spots a shooter and dives on him, thus saving the President's life. That night, when he arrives home, he finds his wife and and children have been murdered. Publicity for these two events, plus his good looks and winning manner, propel him to hosting a cable reality crime TV show. Because an associate discovers a link to a Florida murder with a similar M.O., J.C. pressures his producer to allow him and a select team to try to track down the killer. It's an interesting story, but ... morecould NEVER happen in real life.
review 2: This story by the author of the Oscar-winning Road to Perdition and many CSI novels could very well be the basis for a television/movie script. It plays smoothly, flowing from one scene to another. The characterizations are spot-on: the network executive theoretically caring for his star and staff but in reality wanting only the high ratings JC’s vendetta will bring in, the talented staff JC bring in, each an expert in his field, each with their own little quirks, and JC himself, grief-stricken, still carrying around the guilt of saving a president but being unable to save his own family, and determined to find out who and why?. That it’s on the air is incidental, it’s justice he wants, as well as revenge and if he has to use a major television network to get it, he will. Delving into the mind of both protagonist and antagonist, the author compares and establishes a relationship between the two men in their bereavement, contrasting how each reacts to his loss. You can’t Stop Me is a tense thriller with a twist of an ending most won’t suspect. less

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