Synopses & Reviews
No WarningIt begins with a bang-a routine search warrant and patrolman Emo Rojas is blown away. The shooter is a wanna-be cop with an illegal arsenal. But he's not the only one making the LAPD's Enemies List: ATF agents may have known Rojas was walking into a trap. Now the LAPD wants revenge.
No Accident
A clandestine war between the two agencies has begun, and it's already claimed two more victims, an ATF member and an L.A. sheriff, both taken out by snipers. The investigation into the murders is handed to homicide investigator Shane Scully, an honorable man now isolated between two hostile armies.
No Escape
As the payback for Rojas's death escalates, Scully and his wife-and boss-Alexa are swept up in a political firestorm that's burning everyone it touches. With time running out, and no one to trust, Scully is putting his career, his life, and the lives of everyone he loves on the line. But crossing it is the only way he can get to the truth.
"A fast-paced police story...I just did not want to put it down...hats off to Cannell.
He knows his crime stuff, and he can write a novel even better than the many successful TV shows he created." --San Jose Mercury News
"Action's been a reliable staple in the Scully series, but here Cannell gets the people right, too. The best yet for the Rockford man."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“Scully has ample opportunity to prove how ‘Hollywood tough he is...veteran writer/TV producer Cannell has concocted his special brand of reader candy.”—
Kirkus Reviews
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"Readers will enjoy watching [Scully] puzzle out the twists and turns of the plot and watch breathlessly as he undertakes a climactic high-speed chase."-Publishers Weekly
"Cannell certainly knows how to tell a story...You'll probably read the entire book with a smile on your face." -Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A fast-paced police story...I just did not want to put it down...hats off to Cannell.
He knows his crime stuff, and he can write a novel even better than the many successful TV shows he created." -San Jose Mercury News
"Action's been a reliable staple in the Scully series, but here Cannell gets the people right, too. The best yet for the Rockford man." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Sharp dialogue, tight pacing...the work of a pro who hasn't forgotten any of his old tricks."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review
Synopsis
"Scully has ample opportunity to prove how 'Hollywood tough' he is...veteran writer/TV producer Cannell has concocted his special brand of reader candy."--KIRKUS REVIEWS ON HOLLYWOOD TOUGH"The sort of fast and furious read you might expect from one of television's most successful and innovative writer-producers."--LOS ANGELES TIMES ON THE VIKING FUNERAL"Stephen Cannell has the screenwriter's fine ear for dialogue and great sense of timing and pacing as well as the novelist's gift of substance and subtlety. Cannell likes to write, and it shows."--NELSON DEMILLE, AUTHOR OF UP COUNTRY ON THE TIN COLLECTORS"If you like cop novels, you're going to love this one. Cannell is a pro at the top of his game."--STEPHEN COONTS, AUTHOR OF LIBERTY ON THE TIN COLLECTORS
Synopsis
Praise for
Hollywood Tough:
"Scully has ample opportunity to prove how 'Hollywood tough' he is...veteran writer/TV producer Cannell has concocted his special brand of reader candy."
--Kirkus Reviews
for The Viking Funeral:
"Stephen J. Cannell's The Viking Funeral is the sort of fast and furious read you might expect from one of television's most successful and innovative writer-producers."
--Los Angeles Times
for The Tin Collectors:
"Stephen Cannell has the screenwriter's fine ear for dialogue and great sense of timing and pacing as well as the novelist's gift of substance and subtlety.Cannell likes to write, and it shows."
--Nelson DeMille
"If you like cop novels, you're going to love this one. Cannell is a pro at the top of his game."
--Stephen Coonts
Synopsis
The Edgar and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer delivers a high-concept thriller of inter-bureau conspiracy and betrayalA nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPDs Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriffs deputy, a friend of Shanes, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of failing to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house. Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of a member of the Sheriffs Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, the LAPD—an uninvolved and unbiased agency—assigns Shane to investigate. He is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT Teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity. Stephen Cannell is one of televisions most prolific and recognized producers. His Shane Scully series has been gaining a growing audience since the publication of The Tin Collectors, and Vertical Coffin is his best outing yet.
Synopsis
The Edgar and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer delivers a high-concept thriller of inter-bureau conspiracy and betrayal.
Synopsis
A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm.
First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house.
Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, LAPD, as an uninvolved and unbiased agency, assigns Shane Scully to investigate.
He is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT Teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity. Shane pursues his investigation in a direction that neither his chief nor his wife agrees with, and succeeds in putting himself, his loved ones, and his career in terrible jeopardy before he finally discovers the shocking and deadly truth.
Stephen J. Cannell's Vertical Coffin is an electrifying, fast-paced thriller.
Synopsis
The Edgar and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer delivers a high-concept thriller of inter-bureau conspiracy and betrayalA nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPDs Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriffs deputy, a friend of Shanes, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of failing to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house. Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of a member of the Sheriffs Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, the LAPD—an uninvolved and unbiased agency—assigns Shane to investigate. He is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT Teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity. Stephen Cannell is one of televisions most prolific and recognized producers. His Shane Scully series has been gaining a growing audience since the publication of The Tin Collectors, and Vertical Coffin is his best outing yet.
About the Author
In his thirty-five year career, Edgar and Emmy Award-winning writer
STEPHEN J. CANNELL has created over forty television series. Among his hits are
The Rockford Files,
Silk Stalkings,
The A-Team,
21 Jump Street, Hunter,
Renegade,
Wiseguy, and
The Commish. He has also penned the bestsellers
The Plan,
Final Victim,
Riding the Snake,
The Devils Workshop, King Con,
Runaway Heart,
The Tin Collectors,
The Viking Funeral, and
Hollywood Tough. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and children.
Scott Brick has performed on film, television and radio. He appeared on stage throughout the United States in productions of Cyrano, Hamlet, Macbeth and other plays. In addition to his acting work, Scott choreographs fight sequences, and was a combatant in films including Romeo and Juliet, The Fantasticks and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. He has also been hired by Morgan Freeman to write the screenplay adaptation of Arthur C. Clarkes Rendezvous with Rama. Scott first began narrating audiobooks in 2000, and after recording almost 400 titles in five years, AudioFile magazine named Scott a Golden Voice and “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy.” He has read a number of titles in Frank Herberts bestselling Dune series, and he won the 2003 Science Fiction Audie Award for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. He has also won over 40 AudioFile Earphones Awards. In 2007, Scott was named Publishers Weeklys Narrator of the Year.