- Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: Grand Central Publishing; Auflage: Reprint (1. Juli 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0446604941
- ISBN-13: 978-0446604949
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 10,8 x 2,1 x 17,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 697.498 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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This time around Matthew Hope finds himself in southern Florida and in a mess. A woman he's representing is suing a toy manufacturer she says stole her idea. The problem is, the president of the toy company was murdered, and guess who's the prime suspect? The other problem--or problems--is that Hope's primary private investigator winds up on a boat kidnapped by drug runners leaving Hope, who is still smarting from gunshot wounds he collected in other adventures, to contact by himself the subjects for the investigation, all of whom reside on boats. Got that? He does get some help, in the form of an old-school PI named Guthrie Lamb, who throws in his techniques to try to crack this rather nutty case.
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Lainie Commins is a cross-eyed toy designer who appears to have struck it rich with a cross-eyed teddy bear she calls Gladly. Two major toy companies are bidding big bucks for the bear, but Commins' former employer, Toyland, is suing the designer, claiming she designed Gladly while on their payroll. Commins hires Florida lawyer Matthew Hope, recently recovered from a bullet-induced coma (There Was a Little Girl, 1994), to plead her case. Meanwhile, someone murders Toyland honcho Brett Toland, and Commins becomes the top suspect. Soon Hope has a murder case on his hands and is forced to construct an elaborate, Simpson-like timeline defense. Though the Matthew Hope novels still play second fiddle in most readers' minds to the author's more-celebrated 87th Precinct tales, this "other" McBain series has developed a devoted audience. Fans will be ecstatic to see that Hope survived his coma--it wasn't a sure thing at the conclusion of Little Girlbut they may find themselves a bit disappointed with this slightly tepid effort. There's nothing wrong with the book exactly, but it lacks the emotional intensity of its predecessor. Still, even McBain can't hit a grand slam every time, so fans should just be glad that Hope springs eternal. Wes Lukowsky
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Format:Taschenbuch
I loved reading this book. I forced myself not to skip to the end of this book because I wanted to enjoy the ride as long as possible. McBain always teaches you something i.e. strabismusly challenged, INS in Big Bad City (which I already knew) and the subtle variations of the definition of Nocturne (I give Nocturne ***** also). I even went back and read The Black Board Jungle and enjoyed it.
Criminal Conversation and Privileged Conversation are also excellent books.
McBain/Hunter is an absolute gem. I always feel I've gained an experience from his books.
Format:Taschenbuch
The story is constructed more on the pattern of the 87th Precinct novels so I found it more absorbing than the usual Mattew Hope novel. Definitely worth getting.
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Gladly we read Ed McBain
11. November 2000
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Ed McBain is the best and this is one of his best. Matthew Hope has two cases, but only one client. The first case is Lainie Commins' battle with a big toy company over trademark rights to a cross-eyed teddy bear. The second is defending her aginst charges that she has murdered the owner of the toy company. He is also battling the after-effects of his own recent near-death experience. Matthew has to work through all these difficulties without the help of his favorite PI's Warren Chambers and Toots Kiley who are embroiled in a life-threatening subplot of their own. This complcated story is played out against the backdrop of McBain's beautifully rendered city of Colussa, Florida.
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More Carefully Written Than 87th Precinct Books
20. Januar 2004
Format:Taschenbuch
I enjoyed reading this book. I am pretty sure that McBain takes more time writing his Hope series. There's liitle of the flippant dialogue and other narrative devices that often mar the putative reality of the 87th books. McBain's novel (not McBain necessarily) wants you to examine the complexities of human beings--in this novel: Hope, Laine--both in some depth. But all characters invite consideration and really seem to blend seamlessly into the narrative (e.g. Guthrie, Diaz, and Tootsie). The casual connection between pornography and a unique children's teddy bear merits a second (third) look. Characters in this book are generally not nice, but are a mix of good and bad, right and wrong. Many readers will pooh-pooh the secondary plot with Warren and Tootsie, but it is in this world (the boat out on the open sea is a microcosm of our world) that seems so surreal, but really is "life-lived" and the "thing itself" that
we glimpse a human being staring intently at evil (crack and/or cocaine) and saying "you aren't going to beat us this time" He stands strong, helps his addicted friend and gave me some hope that good still may triumph, at least aspirationally, in this world, where my 50 plus years on earth has seen a lot of nastiness, betrayal and other unalloyed forms of evil. But a little good along the way. I read Money, Money, Money just before this one. I enjoyed it, but Gladly has legitimate edginess (not too overdone for a novel) and a kind of crunchy soulfulness that makes you applaud what Etta did to her husband. Again right over wrong; good over evil. Money also had its virtues but was too jauntily frivilous about certain things (lion) and maudlin about human relations: Carrella, mother and wife. My first Hope book; hope others are as good. Oh, I almost forgot. McBain's handling of Hope's coma was excellent and was wrapped up beautifully (understated and clever)at the end of the book. I have read 9 McBain books; Gladly (and just a little of Vespers) is the only one where when I finished the book, I said a little prayer and reached for Yeats's poems. WEll Done.
we glimpse a human being staring intently at evil (crack and/or cocaine) and saying "you aren't going to beat us this time" He stands strong, helps his addicted friend and gave me some hope that good still may triumph, at least aspirationally, in this world, where my 50 plus years on earth has seen a lot of nastiness, betrayal and other unalloyed forms of evil. But a little good along the way. I read Money, Money, Money just before this one. I enjoyed it, but Gladly has legitimate edginess (not too overdone for a novel) and a kind of crunchy soulfulness that makes you applaud what Etta did to her husband. Again right over wrong; good over evil. Money also had its virtues but was too jauntily frivilous about certain things (lion) and maudlin about human relations: Carrella, mother and wife. My first Hope book; hope others are as good. Oh, I almost forgot. McBain's handling of Hope's coma was excellent and was wrapped up beautifully (understated and clever)at the end of the book. I have read 9 McBain books; Gladly (and just a little of Vespers) is the only one where when I finished the book, I said a little prayer and reached for Yeats's poems. WEll Done.
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A fan from IL who was very GLAD to have read this Hope book
28. Mai 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
I loved reading this book. I forced myself not to skip to the end of this book because I wanted to enjoy the ride as long as possible. McBain always teaches you something i.e. strabismusly challenged, INS in Big Bad City (which I already knew) and the subtle variations of the definition of Nocturne (I give Nocturne ***** also). I even went back and read The Black Board Jungle and enjoyed it.
Criminal Conversation and Privileged Conversation are also excellent books.
McBain/Hunter is an absolute gem. I always feel I've gained an experience from his books.
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