Lieberman's Choice

by Stuart M. Kaminsky

Book Overview

"Kaminsky gets his details exactly right....Tightly plotted...The best mysteries work on multiple levels, and this one is no exception." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Detective Sergeant Abe Lieberman is about to wake up to every policeman's nightmare--an out-of-control colleague hell-bent on revenge. After gunning down his wife and her lover, a fellow cop, Bernie Shepard has retreated to a makeshift bunker atop his high-rise apartment buliding, armed with a high-powered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312088361
• ISBN13: 9780312088361
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Rogue Cop Holds City at Ransom

This is an adventure novel about a rogue cop who catches his wife in bed with her lover and kills them. He threatens to blow up the city if his demands are not met. There is good dialogue and the book is intelligently written. The character of Abe Lieberman, Jewish cop, is very real and empathetically drawn.

Would make a nice two TV hour movie to watch on a quiet Sunday

This is the first sequel in the Lieberman series by Kaminsky. He is working on four of them at this time. If you keep in mind that Kaminsky has been writing TV scripts since the sixties (he wrote for the "Man from U.N.C.L.E.") and currently writes for the CSI series, you'll recognize his style. There is little narrative and the dialogue is always crisp, and few if any extraneous characters. If you read real carefully, you can even guess where the commercial breaks would be. All this said, it's still an enjoyable series to read. It isn't terribly profound, nor are there any great surprises, everything goes pretty linear. But if you are looking for something fun to read, that doesn't ask for anything intellectually from you, except of course for your time, this is what your looking for. I am looking forward to the next episode, eh...installment.