Lieutenant George Hastings, a cool-headed, quick-thinking police detective, leapt to the forefront of the St. Louis Police Department when two beat cops were gunned down, and he led the joint FBI/police taskforce that caught the killer.
Now he is back at work with the FBI on a new case: Cordelia Penmark, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, has been kidnapped and her boyfriend callously executed outside of a posh holiday party for his law firm.
The murder was clearly a message—the kidnappers are willing to take this as far as they have to—and the target and the ransom demand indicate that the crime is politically motivated. But the investigators are stumped. Wary because of bruised egos on his team and bad blood among members of the young woman's family, and suspicious of the kidnappers' intentions, Hastings knows that there's more than simple politics in play as the kidnappers pull him and the girl's father into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Slick, sharp, and authentic, Goodbye Sister Disco, the sequel to the acclaimed novel The Betrayers, establishes James Patrick Hunt as one of crime fiction's rising stars.
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December 3, 2007
Stock characters undermine an intriguing plot in Hunt's flat fifth novel, which features St. Louis police detective George Hastings, introduced in 2007's The Betrayers
. When two men shoot a young lawyer, Tom Myers, and abduct Myers's fiancée soon after the couple left a Christmas party in a posh suburb, the authorities have few leads into the murder and kidnapping. The appealing Hastings, a dedicated cop and divorced father with custody of his stepdaughter, must dig deep into the relationships of the victims to unearth clues that might lead him to the perpetrators. While the plot moves at a good clip and Hunt manages some effective scenes, including a brilliant ransom drop, most of the supporting characters—the charismatic con man, the manipulative trophy wife, the rich and oblivious nerd—come off as one-dimensional. Hopefully, Hunt will return to form in his next book. -
Starred review from December 15, 2007
The daughter of a billionaire is kidnapped and her boyfriend murdered. Lieutenant Hastings of the St. Louis PD (introduced in "The Betrayers") and the FBI begin a joint operation to get her back alive. But as he deals with her strange family and the stone-cold terrorists holding her, Hastings finds not everything is as it seems. Hunt's roller-coaster of a crime thriller has it allgreat characters, plenty of action, and a nail-biting ending. For fans of police procedurals. Hunt lives in Tulsa, OK.Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Starred review from January 1, 2008
The truth is Cordelia, the daughter of a nerdy Bill Gateslike billionaire, doesnt much like her boyfriend, an up-and-coming corporate lawyer. While enjoying a cigarette on the patio at the office Christmas bash, she strikes up a conversation and then a rapport with one of the firms heavy hitters. The tone is positively sultry, never minding that its St. Louis at the solstice. What do we have here? An illicitDecember-May romance? No, its an assassination and abduction as Tom, the boyfriend, is shot in the face, and Cordelia carried off by Zapatista-capped terrorists as the couple steps out the front door on the way home. The urban guerrillas are drawn just as intriguingly as the corporate types, including Lee, a journalist with an Ivy League background, who helps spring the groups supposed leader from the slammer. Lieutenant George Hastings has the job of finding Cordelia, but his attention is split by the task of ensuring that his adopted daughter has a fulfilling Christmas. The superbly drawn characters in this mix of thriller and police procedural would do Joseph Wambaugh or Michael Connelly proud. The cop work at the end is something of a letdown, given the richness of everything up to that point, but this is still another fine piece of work from the author of the Maitland series and two other top-notch stand-alones.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)
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