Blitz (Inspector Brant)
Most of the hard-charging cops fromThe White Trilogy[BKL F 1 03] are back--Sergeant Brant, Chief Inspector Roberts, Police Constable Falls--along with a couple of late arrivals, Sergeant Porter Nash and PC McDonald. Slogging their way through a London unrecognizable from postcards, it's a wonder any of them have survived both criminal mayhem and their own self-destructive impulses. A cop killer dubbed "The Blitz" is wreaking havoc with a hammer, and as the tale rockets forward, the characters find themselves engaged in unlikely alliances: homophobe Brant with openly gay Nash; suddenly supercompetent Roberts with screw-up McDonald; and the black Falls with "Metal," a racist skinhead. WhileBlitzstill suffers from Bruen's tendency to create two-dimensional villains and to skim the surface of emotional depths he ought to plumb, there are hints that he's softening a bit, realizing that characters with regrets are more interesting than those too emotionally dead to care. Also, this one is more satisfyingly plotted than its predecessors, ending with a bang instead of just skidding to a stop.Keir GraffCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.