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Apaches
by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Ballantine Books (1997-07-21)
ISBN: 0345401018
EAN: 9780345401014
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Hardcover: 336 pages
Edition: 1st
Release Date: 1997-07-21
SKU: 01CB-007-7-0507
Condition: Fine Near Fine First
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Remember these names: Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. They were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more.
Now they are apaches--a renegade unit working on their own.
With this novel, the author of the stunning #1 bestseller Sleepers returns to the mean streets he knows so well. And in doing so, he has written his most explosive, electrifying, and startling book yet. It is the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating and so is an unnerving lack of morality. Things are happening that have never happened before.
One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12-year-old girl. But the kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontierie back to life, back to the streets. And back into action. A New York City detective forced to retire after being wounded in a drug bust, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved--the life of a cop. When an old friend turns to him for help, Boomer has the excuse he needs. And when the simple kidnapping turns into something more, something much more evil, even more horrifying, Boomer realizes that he can once again find a way to serve justice.
There are others like Boomer. Cops who can no longer be cops. He brings them together, bringing them back to life as well. Even as they face almost certain death.
Apaches is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call them criminals. Some might call them heroes. But theirs is a world where good is always shadowed by bad, where right is almost indecipherable from wrong, and where the living can, within mere moments, cross over to the world of the dead.
Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the most exciting novel of the year. Like Sleepers, it is a book that will never be forgotten.
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Customer Reviews
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Unfortunately, I read it.
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-11-07
What an unbelievable book. The author creates cardboard villains with enough disgusting qualities to justify breaking the law. What in the world can make a cop full of integrity and the law okay a mafia killing? Someone who tortures and rapes a 12yr old girl, then cuts off her finger, and is stopped short of selling her to a demented sadistic torturer who has a fetish of hanging young teens' body parts from his body. Someone who unless he is killed will give the 12 yr old girl WORSE nightmares all her life from knowing he is still alive ahd out there, than from those she will unavoidably have anyways.
Is that enough? No... And we need a team of cops who are all in need of justification to break the law. What is it? A womn, murderer of four husbands, leading a gang of drug smugglers. Getting girls pregnant, taking their babies, and when they get old enough, some months old, large enough to hold cocaine in their abdomens, they kill the babies, and stuff them full of drugs... sleeping babies, until as one of the bad couriers says, they get "ripe" and a new one is needed.
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Good vs. Evil in Copland
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-01-19
This is one of the few books I've read that actually could have been longer and would have been a much better book for it. The premise of the story is quite simple and one that has been done in the movies and TV before, but Lorenzo Carcaterra does it quite well.
The book focuses on six ex-cops,Boomer,Dead-Eye, Pins, Geronimo,Reverand Jim, and Mrs. Columbo. All six had different areas of expertise in the police department and all are retired from the police force because of injuries or trauma suffered from their going above and beyond the call of duty.
This group is brought together in their attempt to halt a drug-smuggling ring that uses dead babies (ugh-talk about evil) to transport illicit narcotics.
The action in this book is rapid-fire,and Lorenzo Carcaterra describes the police procedures and the streets with surfire certainty. My only complaint with this novel was the lack of effort put into developing what should have been very memorable characters. The backbone of this novel is the group of renegade ex-cops who christian themselves Apaches and they just were not fleshed out enough. As one reviewer stated, I found myself having to flip back through the book to remember which person had which specialty.
However by the end of this book, it all comes together with a bang-and you will find yourself tearing through the last 50 or so pages at breakneck speed. As other reviewers have stated the writing is not first class and the characters are a bit cliched but you really don't care. If Lorenzo Caracterra had put a little more development into the characters in the first part of the book it would have been a four to five star novel. With the tremendous climax though I find myself anxiously awaiting the sequel.
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5 STAR IS TOO LOW GIVE IT A 10
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-01-03
Do you ever wish that the scumbags of this world would disappear or you could get rid of them. The child molestors of this world. This book tells it all my thanks to the officers and policemen and women who keep them off the street. I loved this book. If it is wrote for movie can't wait to see it. i probably will watch it 5 times just like i did Rambo. i had no trouble with the characters are there roles in the book. I have the hardback edition it will go on my bookshelves for a reread. it is good!!!!
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Great book
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-02-17
This is an above average book that keeps readers on the edge of their seats until they're done, then makes them want more! Mr. Carcaterra did an outstanding job on this book. This book puts you into the eyes of a group of renegade retired cops that are going up against the biggest drug Queen in the US. This nailbiting adventure should be required reading in English classes.
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Renegade ex-cops take on drug queen
Rating (3)
Date: 2003-04-20
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The plot is simple and yet exciting. A gang--cadre--team--of six of NYPD's best cops, all disabled in the course of duty, come together with a restraunteur who has links to the mob in order to bring down the Queen Bee of all drug lords (ladies?).Each of the six protagonists has a rich and detailed past, and we are introduced to them individually in depth before the main action begins. Then Boomer and Dead-Eye (yes, everybody has a nickname) take on a hopeless case and emerge, not only victorious, but feeling alive because they are COPS again. The rest of the group joins them, and Boomer outlines the plan. They will defeat the Empress of evil, a drug dealer so bad, her only good point is that she pays her gym bill on time. From the moment our team forms, the plot moves lightening fast to its conclusion. The action is great, the detail is satisfying, the dialogue snappy. The characters have their own story, each credulous, each powerful. Why only three stars? I had to keep flipping back to the beginning chapters to see which of the six former cops had which specialty. Who was the bomb specialist? Flip back and look. Who's the electronics expert? Flip. You get the picture. I loved them all individually, but I would have loved the novel more if only two or three of the characters had been detailed, and the rest just outlined for me. Even so, the drama unfolds so swiftly, I still recommend this book to anyone who loves a dark, action-filled tale of good versus evil. Do your friends read romances? Okay, don't tell them what happens, they won't sleep at night. But get out the flashlight--you'll be up reading.
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