Review: Hands Down, Schaffer's Best Work to Date
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2012
If you're wise enough to purchase this collection, congratulations. The three pieces in this collection are most definitely Bernard Schaffer's best work thus far.*Superbia*Meet Frank O'Ryan and Vic Ajax, two not-yet-promoted detectives in a small town suburb of Philadelphia and follow them through cases that no civilian would ever want to face. This is real police work. Cases don't get neatly solved and packaged. They're messy, down in the trenches, and sometimes painful to read. But they're honest and the comic relief is brilliant.*Superbia 2*Frank returns in a sequel right on par with the original. Well developed characters and a story line that never slows down enough to get stale will keep you turning pages. It has me holding my breath as I anxiously await Superbia 3.*Way of the Warrior*I've said several times that Schaffer's non-fiction is even better than his fiction. That's not because anything is wrong with his writing, it's because you get to see a bit less of the writer and a bit more of the real person behind the fiction.In short, Way of the Warrior helped me understand why people choose to go into law enforcement, and Superbia and Superbia 2 helped me understand what that really means. This collection is more than worth your time.