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The audacious new adventure of the At Risk team from America?s #1 bestselling crime writer.
When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of At Risk, the result was electrifying: ?At Risk is Cornwell?s finest novel. It works in every way possible? fascinating characters, solid plot, great pacing and expertly crafted prose? (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); ?Absolutely the best. Here?s hoping we?ll see more of Win, Monique, Nana and Sykes in the coming years. They are the best characters to emerge from Cornwell?s creative pen since . . . well, Kay Scarpetta? (The Denver Post).
At Risk featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano, a shrewd man of mixed-race background and a notinconsiderable chip on his shoulder; District Attorney Monique Lamont, a hard-charging woman with powerful ambitions and a troubling willingness to cut corners; and Garano?s grandmother, who has certain unpredictable talents that you ignore at your peril.
And in The Front, peril is what comes to them all. D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she?s sending him to Watertown to ?come up with a drama,? and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up in order that they don?t have to be so dependent on the state?much to Lamont?s anger. He senses a much deeper agenda here?but he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, he?ll find that Lamont?s task, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrors?everywhere he turns, he?s not quite sure if what he?s seeing is true.
?Falsehoods rule,? warns his grandmother. And they can also kill.
This is the master writing at the absolute top of her game. You will never guess what lies behind The Front. more
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Recent Reviews
- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-09-2009
- Thin story and book - s/b be called a novella or short story
Very very disappointed. I've read the other low rated reviews and agree with every one of them, adding that to push this book as a novel is to do a disservice to all continuing great authers who turn out full length books with full...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-11-2009
- Terrible
I guess I'm just spoiled by the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series, but this book was so thin on plot, with characters about as flat as a pancake. On the other hand, I really like Isle of Dogs -- which had a sense of humor. This was humorless...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-04-2009
- Just Ain't What She Used to Be
While passing through the airport a few weeks ago, I picked up a copy of The Front. Having read nearly everything Cornwell has written, and having loved most -- but not all -- of the Scarpetta books, I was hoping against hope that she...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-17-2009
- Unreadable
The book actually had an interesting premise at first but.. WTF was it about? I read to about page 160 and gave up. I still have not idea what the plot was supposed to be about. This book is so BAD it's laughable. Does Cornwell even HAVE...
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Selected Reviews
- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-01-2008
- Interesting Read
Overall I thought this was a really good book. It's great to see Cornwell work with some new characters. She is such a great writer, and I'm glad she is demonstrating her range. The format was a little strange, but I think that is mostly...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-22-2008
- Still waiting for the old Cornwell to come back.
I keep buying Patricia Cornwell books hoping for the author who wrote such great books like the Body Farm. The book was very short (i should have checked the page count before i purchased) and not all that interesting. This might be the...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-09-2009
- Thin story and book - s/b be called a novella or short story
Very very disappointed. I've read the other low rated reviews and agree with every one of them, adding that to push this book as a novel is to do a disservice to all continuing great authers who turn out full length books with full...
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