Free Fall (Audible Audio Edition) William Roberts Robert Crais AudioGO Ltd Books
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Elvis Cole is a detective who can't say no, especially when it comes to a girl in a terrible fix. But when Jennifer Sheridan asks him for help, Elvis takes on rather more than he bargained for. Jennifer's fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plain-clothes unit, but Jennifer's sure he's in trouble. The kind of serious trouble that Cole is only too familiar with.
Free Fall (Audible Audio Edition) William Roberts Robert Crais AudioGO Ltd Books
I both read this story (Kindle) and listened to it (Audible), so I have two parts to my review: 1) the novel, and 2) the narration.The Novel:
This is the fourth novel in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series, and I have read the first three. Obviously, I like the characters and the storytelling. I didn’t think this volume met the high quality of the first three volumes, but I am probably drawing a thin line between this one and the previous ones. Elvis Cole was his usual tongue-in-cheek commentator, and Joe Pike’s mouth managed to twitch a few times in this story. Yes, I would recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys good plots mixed with great characters and supported with excellent writing.
The Narration:
I thought the narrator’s voice was not right for the character, Elvis Cole. The narrator’s voice was too smooth and didn’t deliver the lighthearted sarcastic humor in the manner the dialogue and internal monologue was written. IMO, the narration didn’t do justice to the writing or to the character.
One Nit:
Chapter 32, at the Space Age Drive-In. Metal poles are not set in cement; they are set in concrete. Cement is an ingredient (a powder) used in making concrete. Cement + gravel + water = Concrete. Many people make this mistake.
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Free Fall (Audible Audio Edition) William Roberts Robert Crais AudioGO Ltd Books Reviews
Hired by nice young lady to get her husband a cop out of a corrupt police situation.. How much is it? A $4000.00 retainer. I can't. For you $2000.00. I got like $40.00 to put down, then can give you $40.00 a month till it is paid? Sure why not. The 20 year plan.
Coming after Lullaby Town, which I thought was wonderful, this is somewhat disappointing. And confusing. In the previous novels long before the 100th page the plot is pretty much set up, barring, of course, the inevitable surprises. Here, it's, well, confusing. On one page, a character dies after hitting his head against the corner of a counter, on the next page, a cop describes the killing as a "Good shoot". I read the pages several times and still couldn't figure it out. If it's a red herring it's a very awkward one. Too, Elvis seems to be on the verge of a midlife crisis; so how about going for women his own age? His attraction to much younger women is the reality, I know, but it's a cliche, and with a writer as smart as Crais and a character as evolved as Elvis it hits a wrong note.
We bought this from Audible.com so I listened to it. It was a fairly decent plot, but so annoying in the writing. The author kept using the complete name for people. An example "Jennifer Sheridan looked at Mark Theroux. Mark Theroux looked back at Jennifer Sheridan. Jennifer Sheridan gave Mark Theroux a smile. Mark Theroux smiled back at Jennifer Sheridan." This went on for the most of the book. I only say "most" because I was so annoyed and distracted by this that I quit reading about 2/3 of the way through and just deleted it from my Clip. He also uses a really annoying thing - for example "He gave us mad." or "He gave us angry." What is it with the "he gave us" things?
I will try another Elvis Cole book (from Audible) but I don't have high hopes. I wish that he would quit this habit but I don't hold out much hope.
A dame walks into a PI's office and gives him forty dollars and a promise of weekly payments to find out what kind of trouble her fiance, an LA cop, is in. And maybe get him out of it.
Elvis Cole is just the kind of quirky private investigator who can't say no to a beautiful woman and so he takes the case. It turns out that the fiance is in a lot more trouble than his client or Elvis could possibly have imagined, and the result is another fast-paced tale that just dares the reader to be able to put it down.
Within the confines of a typical violence-ridden Robert Crais plot, the author manages to tackle and address a number of controversial issues in Free Fall. He gives us a look at life in South Central LA with its gangs and, in some instances, an unspoken complicity between the gangs and the police. We see police brutality at its sickening worst and the cover-ups that are all too often the police's knee-jerk reaction to such brutality.
Dirty cops and ruthless gangs are at the center of the engaging tale that Crais weaves and he constantly surprises us with the unexpected twists and turns which his plot takes.
As Elvis begins his preliminary investigation, he realizes pretty quickly that this case may be a bit much for him to handle on his own and he calls in his big guns, aka Joe Pike, his partner and gun shop owner. From that point on, the body count rises precipitously as it tends to do whenever Pike is on the scene.
Somehow though, no matter how the dead bodies pile up, Cole and Pike always come out smelling like a veritable rose garden. Achieving this requires a lot of help from their contacts on the police force and in the DA's office, but those contacts know that these are two righteous dudes who are always on the side of the angels and so they give their help unstintingly.
Moreover, Cole and Pike seem to have this knack for running into like-minded people in their community, people who will help them achieve their high-minded aims. People such as the former marine drill sergeant, now martial arts teacher in South Central who is appalled by the violence wracking his community and itching to get into the fight to clean it up.
This is the fourth in Robert Crais' Elvis Cole series and it has been a fun read so far. This book was no exception. It worked perfectly well for light summer reading, in spite of the dark story that it tells. In the end, the angels prevail and justice - well, a very rough justice - is served.
I both read this story () and listened to it (Audible), so I have two parts to my review 1) the novel, and 2) the narration.
The Novel
This is the fourth novel in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series, and I have read the first three. Obviously, I like the characters and the storytelling. I didn’t think this volume met the high quality of the first three volumes, but I am probably drawing a thin line between this one and the previous ones. Elvis Cole was his usual tongue-in-cheek commentator, and Joe Pike’s mouth managed to twitch a few times in this story. Yes, I would recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys good plots mixed with great characters and supported with excellent writing.
The Narration
I thought the narrator’s voice was not right for the character, Elvis Cole. The narrator’s voice was too smooth and didn’t deliver the lighthearted sarcastic humor in the manner the dialogue and internal monologue was written. IMO, the narration didn’t do justice to the writing or to the character.
One Nit
Chapter 32, at the Space Age Drive-In. Metal poles are not set in cement; they are set in concrete. Cement is an ingredient (a powder) used in making concrete. Cement + gravel + water = Concrete. Many people make this mistake.
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