Book Review - Cold Hit
I picked up the newest Stephen J. Cannell book, Cold Hit, from the library this weekend while on the hunt for all of the Evanovich Stephanie Plum Books. Cannell was the guy behind the TV shows The A-Team, The Rockford Files and The Commish.
A digression here. I loved The A-Team. If I could have run away with Face, I'd have done it. Dirk Benedict was hot in that suave bad boy kind of way. Whew! Wonder what he's doing now...
Anyway, Cannell's hero is Shane Scully, an LA cop who used to live in the bottle but now has a pretty good life with his cop wife and recently found son (whose Mom was an expensive call girl but now dead). The latest book finds Scully searching for a serial killer and trying to help his drunk partner shape up his life.
These books are good afternoon reads that one can easily see being a 2 hour TV movie. The action's fast and furious but there's also a lot of heart in it as Scully has developed into a character who's maturing and whom you can care about.
I've seen Cannell and Scully compared to author Michael Connelly and his Harry Bosch character and I have to give the edge to Connelly on the writing but you can't go wrong with either of these guys.
A digression here. I loved The A-Team. If I could have run away with Face, I'd have done it. Dirk Benedict was hot in that suave bad boy kind of way. Whew! Wonder what he's doing now...
Anyway, Cannell's hero is Shane Scully, an LA cop who used to live in the bottle but now has a pretty good life with his cop wife and recently found son (whose Mom was an expensive call girl but now dead). The latest book finds Scully searching for a serial killer and trying to help his drunk partner shape up his life.
These books are good afternoon reads that one can easily see being a 2 hour TV movie. The action's fast and furious but there's also a lot of heart in it as Scully has developed into a character who's maturing and whom you can care about.
I've seen Cannell and Scully compared to author Michael Connelly and his Harry Bosch character and I have to give the edge to Connelly on the writing but you can't go wrong with either of these guys.
