The Renegades: A Charlie Hood Novel
by T. Jefferson Parker
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Author: T. Jefferson ParkerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-02-10
ISBN: 0525950958
Number of pages: 338
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Book Reviews of The Renegades: A Charlie Hood Novel
Book Review: "A greedy mind is satisfied with no amount of gain." Proverb
Summary: 3 Stars
Charlie Hood is back after his adventures in "L. A. Outlaws."
After the shooting and internal affairs investigation of the "L.A. Outlaw" novel, Charlie asks for a more quiet division. He is assigned to the Antelope Valley Division.
While he and Terry Laws are on a call, Terry is murdered. Hood wonders if the killer's gun jammed or did they want to leave him alive as a witness.
Internal Affairs reassigns him to their unit so he can lead the investigation into his partner's killing. It doesn't take long for Charlie to see that Laws was a crooked cop, from his bogus charity to the weekly deposits of $7,200 into his account.
Laws and Coleman Draper arrested Shay Eichrodt, supposidly because he just killed two cartel couriers. There was $340,000 in the trunk which they brought to the leader of the cartel and began their weekly payoffs by moving money and other items across the boarder.
This novel was not up to the excellence of "L. A. Outlaws." In my opinion, the author felt his readers would be familiar with Charlie Hood as the protagonist so there wasn't much character development. In addition there were times when it was confusing to follow when the writing changed from third person to first person in a short time.
In addition, Coleman Draper was an unusual antagonist. At times he seemed honorable and sincere and at others he didn't hesitate to either take a life or order someone killed. Perhaps the author is telling us that although a character may be evil, they could posess some good characteristics.
The author is one of only three people who have won the Edgar Award for best novel more than once. The other two are James Lee Burke and Dick Francis. Nice company.
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