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Title: get real!
Review: This novel has all the gritty realism of a late 70s network cop show: TJ Hooker meets Starsky & Hutch. The plot was painfully predictable, the characters laughably cliched and the dialog stupid, forced and irritating. Toward the end of the book, after heroes Elvis and Pike, easily blow away a half dozen oriental villans, they proceed to voluntarily and inexplicably put down their weaponry in order to engage in hand to hand combat with one final bad guy...just like on tv. I, for one, expect more from a detective novel and won't waste my time with the other Crais books.
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