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A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm.

First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house.

Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, LAPD, as an uninvolved and unbiased agency, assigns Shane Scully to investigate.

He is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT Teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity. Shane pursues his investigation in a direction that neither his chief nor his wife agrees with, and succeeds in putting himself, his loved ones, and his career in terrible jeopardy before he finally discovers the shocking and deadly truth.

Stephen J. Cannell's Vertical Coffin is an electrifying, fast-paced thriller.

From Publishers Weekly

The title of the latest entry in Cannell's Shane Scully LAPD series (Hollywood Tough; The Tin Collectors; The Viking Funeral) is police jargon for any doorway, which is where cops are most vulnerable when clearing a house. As the novel begins, Shane stumbles into a full-scale barricade shootout between gunman Vincent Smiley and surrounding police. After one of two competing SWAT teams at the scene burns down the barricaded house with Smiley in it, a fight over who is to blame begins to smolder. Several subsequent cop shootings (with all victims caught in the aforementioned vertical coffins) fan the SWAT team turf tussle into a conflagration that Shane and wife Alexa, the acting head of the LAPD Detective Services Group, are assigned to investigate. Shane, an old school detective, insists on starting from zero and looking into shooter Smiley's past. Everyone else wants him to forget the gumshoe routine and come up with an instant solution. The pleasure of Cannell's work isn't in the writing ("Bullets whined and ricocheted in a deadly concert of tortured metal"), but lies more often in the interesting procedural elements ("It's very hard to protect a crime scene, so I always start at the far edges first, and work in toward the body"). Shane's still a little rough around the edges, but despite too many pop psychology musings, he's a dependable and satisfying character. Readers will enjoy watching him puzzle out the twists and turns of the plot and watch breathlessly as he undertakes a climactic high-speed chase in a souped-up dune buggy on a military shooting range.
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From Booklist

The firefight played out like a mini-Waco conflagration. Vincent Smiley, a wanna-be cop with a fondness for bragging about his weapons cache, battles elements of the Los Angeles Police and County Sheriff's Departments until a SWAT team brings in the heavy weaponry, and Smiley's home burns to the ground with Smiley apparently in it, firing until the end. The incident takes on political repercussions when it's learned that the battle erupted as Smiley was served with a misdemeanor weapons warrant by an LAPD patrolman. An intradepartmental squabble ensues when the LAPD learns a division of the Feds was aware of Smiley's violent proclivities and may have sacrificed one of their patrol officers to serve a warrant and force Smiley's hand. Shane Scully, an LAPD homicide investigator and his wife, Alexa, an LAPD Division commander, are handed the political hot potato of sorting out the who-knew-what-when mess. Rapid deterioration sets in when two officers involved in the case are shot dead by a sniper. Are law-enforcement agencies at war? Cannell, a veteran TV producer of such hits as The Rockford Files, has made the transition to crime fiction easily; this is his fourth Scully novel along with several stand-alone thrillers. The Scully series, though, brings out the best in him: adept characterization, sharp dialogue, breakneck plotting, and great entertainment value. Wes Lukowsky
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A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house. Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, LAPD, as an uninvolved and unbiased agency, assigns Shane Scully to investigate. He is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT Teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity. Shane pursues his investigation in a direction that neither his chief nor his wife agrees with, and succeeds in putting himself, his loved ones, and his career in terrible jeopardy before he finally discovers the shocking and deadly truth. Stephen J. Cannell's Vertical Coffin is an electrifying, fast-paced thriller.From Publishers WeeklyThe title of the latest entry in Cannell's Shane Scully LAPD series (Hollywood Tough; The Tin Collectors; The Viking Funeral) is police jargon for any doorway, which is where cops are most vulnerable when clearing a house. As the novel begins, Shane stumbles into a full-scale barricade shootout between gunman Vincent Smiley and surrounding police. After one of two competing SWAT teams at the scene burns down the barricaded house with Smiley in it, a fight over who is to blame begins to smolder. Several subsequent cop shootings (with all victims caught in the aforementioned vertical coffins) fan the SWAT team turf tussle into a conflagration that Shane and wife Alexa, the acting head of the LAPD Detective Services Group, are assigned to investigate. Shane, an old school detective, insists on starting from zero and looking into shooter Smiley's past. Everyone else wants him to forget the gumshoe routine and come up with an instant solution. The pleasure of Cannell's work isn't in the writing ("Bullets whined and ricocheted in a deadly concert of tortured metal"), but lies more often in the interesting procedural elements ("It's very hard to protect a crime scene, so I always start at the far edges first, and work in toward the body"). Shane's still a little rough around the edges, but despite too many pop psychology musings, he's a dependable and satisfying character. Readers will enjoy watching him puzzle out the twists and turns of the plot and watch breathlessly as he undertakes a climactic high-speed chase in a souped-up dune buggy on a military shooting range. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistThe firefight played out like a mini-Waco conflagration. Vincent Smiley, a wanna-be cop with a fondness for bragging about his weapons cache, battles elements of the Los Angeles Police and County Sheriff's Departments until a SWAT team brings in the heavy weaponry, and Smiley's home burns to the ground with Smiley apparently in it, firing until the end. The incident takes on political repercussions when it's learned that the battle erupted as Smiley was served with a misdemeanor weapons warrant by an LAPD patrolman. An intradepartmental squabble ensues when the LAPD learns a division of the Feds was aware of Smiley's violent proclivities and may have sacrificed one of their patrol officers to serve a warrant and force Smiley's hand. Shane Scully, an LAPD homicide investigator and his wife, Alexa, an LAPD Division commander, are handed the political hot potato of sorting out the who-knew-what-when mess. Rapid deterioration sets in when two officers involved in the case are shot dead by a sniper. Are law-enforcement agencies at war? Cannell, a veteran TV producer of such hits as The Rockford Files, has made the transition to crime fiction easily; this is his fourth Scully novel along with several stand-alone thrillers. The Scully series, though, brings out the best in him: adept characterization, sharp dialogue, breakneck plotting, and great entertainment value. Wes Lukowsky Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Author:	Stephen J. Cannell
Publication Year:	2005
ISBN:	312934793
Language:	other
File Size:	0.2748
Format:	PDF
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