Thrillers, Multicultural Detectives - Fiction, Crime Fiction, Police Stories
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Overview
Hugh Holton, the highest-ranking active police officer writing books today, is well-known for powerful, passion-charged novels. Reviewers compare his books to hurricanes and firestorms, descriptions that are especially apt in the case of Time of the Assassins. The most controversial story in today's inner cities is the CIA's apparent funding of counterinsurgent druglords in Latin America, who, instead of fighting revolutionaries, have used that funding to wholesale crack cocaine in this country's ghettos.
In this exciting new novel, Commander Larry Cole battles these Agency-funded druglords. Their "personal representative" is Baron von Rianocek, a hitman. A well-paid professional, known as a world-class "problem solver," he has successfully eliminated both high-profile British industrialists and South American dictators. The CIA, the FBI, and Interpol, all suspect him of being behind various incidents, but they have never been able to pin anything on the slippery millionaire, who claims to be descended from European royalty.
Police detective Larry Cole has unwittingly crossed paths several times with the notorious assassin. Appearing at the wrong place at the wrong time, he had twice foiled the assassin's work. Now the well-heeled assassin has a new target. He has set his telescopic sights on the CPD chief of detectives-Cole himself.
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Editorials
Library Journal
In 1977, Larry Cole, then a patrolman in Chicago, and international assassin Baron Alain Marcus Casimir von Rianocek cross paths when Rianocek makes an aborted attempt on the life of a Mafia don but is foiled by Cole. They meet again in New York City in 1989 when Rianocek and his two closest cohorts murder a woman but in the ensuing debacle barely escape with their lives. In 2003, an attorney with a grudge gets out of prison hires Rianocek and company to wreak havoc on Chicago and on Larry Cole, whom he holds personally responsible for all that has gone wrong in his life. In this sixth series novel, Holton drops his use of mayhem and magic to tell a straight, fast-paced tale of hatred and revenge. For most fiction collections.--Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., OH Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\Book Details
Published
June 18, 2001
Publisher
Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Pages
384
ISBN
9781466826687