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White Sister (A Shane Scully Novel) Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312347369
ISBN: 0312347367
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2007-06-26
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Product Release Date: 2007-06-26
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312347369
ISBN: 0312347367
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2007-06-26
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Product Release Date: 2007-06-26
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Editorial Review of White Sister (A Shane Scully Novel)
ONE IS his beloved.
Leaving L.A.’s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his wife, Alexa, agree to meet at home…but Alexa never arrives. Then Shane’s called to a crime scene on Mulholland Drive, where the victim, an apparent gang member, has been executed—and left in Alexa’s car. Her gun is the likely murder weapon.
THE OTHER Is his Nemesis.
As Shane desperately tries to find Alexa, his leads point to a feud between two gangsta-rap record companies, both heavily manned by Crips and Bloods. At the center of this war is a ruthless, beautiful Lady Macbeth-like white woman raised in Compton. Married to a multi-millionaire rap mogul, she is known as the White Sister.
It’s his worst nightmare come true…
Shane is no stranger to big trouble, but he’s never before been smeared as a “racist cop” or thrown in jail while there’s a hit out on him. Much worse is the unknown fate of Alexa, and the fact that in the mysterious White Sister—who holds the clue to a sinister conspiracy—he may have met his match.
Leaving L.A.’s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his wife, Alexa, agree to meet at home…but Alexa never arrives. Then Shane’s called to a crime scene on Mulholland Drive, where the victim, an apparent gang member, has been executed—and left in Alexa’s car. Her gun is the likely murder weapon.
THE OTHER Is his Nemesis.
As Shane desperately tries to find Alexa, his leads point to a feud between two gangsta-rap record companies, both heavily manned by Crips and Bloods. At the center of this war is a ruthless, beautiful Lady Macbeth-like white woman raised in Compton. Married to a multi-millionaire rap mogul, she is known as the White Sister.
It’s his worst nightmare come true…
Shane is no stranger to big trouble, but he’s never before been smeared as a “racist cop” or thrown in jail while there’s a hit out on him. Much worse is the unknown fate of Alexa, and the fact that in the mysterious White Sister—who holds the clue to a sinister conspiracy—he may have met his match.
Customer Reviews of White Sister (A Shane Scully Novel)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: 4 stars for first 80%, maybe 2 stars for the rest
Review: The first 80% of the book was a good story. Kept you turning the page for more even if it were somewhat predictable, it was entertaining. This is fiction and I realize an author will take a few liberties just like Hollywood does with films...but the last part of the book reminds you that yes, this is the guy that dreamed up the A Team. 2 stars for the last part of the book is being generous. Up until that point, it was a solid 4 star rating but he really crapped out the last section. Where was Mister T?
I'm also curious if he knows the difference between a Lincoln Navigator and a Chevrolet (or GMC) Suburban. He kept referring the the same vehicle as both in one section of the book.
Had I known how bad the last part was, I wouldn't have bothered reading the book. The first 80% wasn't good enough to make up for the last 20%.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The adventure continues
Review: Shane Scully series by Stephen J. Cannell is a must read! The whole series has great plots and lots of suspense. This book is no different and the plot is very contemporary, yet unusual.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Shane Scully returns
Review: For a couple decades starting in the mid-Seventies, Stephen J. Cannell was one of the biggest TV writer/producers around, responsible for such shows as The Rockford Files, Wiseguy, The A-Team and 21 Jump Street. In the past few years, however, he has focused more on writing and - after writing a few standalone novels - has now written a series of novels featuring LA detective Shane Scully.
In White Sister, Cannell offers a little change-of-pace by having Shane narrate instead of using the third person point-of-view. I suppose this is a necessary shift as Shane will undergo a major personal crisis in this book and the first-person viewpoint can show his internal feelings better. The crisis involves his wife, Alexa, who has turned up missing and who seems linked to the death of an undercover (and possibly dirty) cop.
Although Alexa will be found reasonably quickly (within the first 100 pages), things are far from good. Not only does evidence point to her having committed murder, but it appears she was the dead cop's lover (and the fact that he was black adds race into the equation as well). Far worse, however, is she is in grave condition, having apparently shot herself after confessing to the murder. It takes all of Shane's love and willpower to believe in her despite the evidence, and his efforts to find the truth will endanger his own job and will even get him accused of a role in the killing.
If Alexa's not the killer (and no faithful reader of the Shane Scully books will believe she is), then who is responsible? The answers will be found in a somewhat muddled plot involving intrigue in the world of rap music, with the center of everything being Stacy Maluga (the White Sister of the title), the wife of a major rap music producer.
Cannell still cannot fully escape his TV writer roots. On the plus side, this means he is a more-than-competent writer who moves things along well. On the minus side, he can be rather formulaic and he can't seem to make the push from being an okay writer to a great one (the ending of this novel includes a bit of silliness that better writers would avoid). In short, this qualifies as a so-called "beach read": a light and fast-reading book with shallow but decent entertainment value.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Death Row Records
Review: This book is another well writen one by the master of the pen, Stephen J Cannell. Rather then go through the plot of the book, since others have already done that, I will mention that to me, this book was loosely based on Death Row Records, and the LA rap scene from that timeframe. In fact, the owner of the main label in the book sounds exactly like Suge Knight, and there is an awards show in the same place that Biggie was gunned down. So, if the whole Death Row thing interests you and you haven't read a Cannell book, check this out. Oh yeah, and Shanes wife is in a coma!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Melodrama and clichés ad nauseum ad infinitum
Review: While I have always thought that Stephen Cannell's "Shane Scully" novels were easily beyond plausibility, I have always enjoyed them just the same. White Sister, however, was a chore to get through. I often found myself skipping to the next paragraph or two each time he gets his "soliloquy" on. With astounding frequency, the main character begins to wax poetic about ______ (you fill in the blank) to the point that you expect him to break into a West-Side-Story-esque song and dance.
The "I know I lied to you five times and broke my promises to you three times in the past 10 minutes, but trust me this time." bit got quite old.
There were a lot of little worn out constructs and clichés used repeatedly, time after time, over and over again, and repetitively throughout the book.
Review Summary: 4 stars for first 80%, maybe 2 stars for the rest
Review: The first 80% of the book was a good story. Kept you turning the page for more even if it were somewhat predictable, it was entertaining. This is fiction and I realize an author will take a few liberties just like Hollywood does with films...but the last part of the book reminds you that yes, this is the guy that dreamed up the A Team. 2 stars for the last part of the book is being generous. Up until that point, it was a solid 4 star rating but he really crapped out the last section. Where was Mister T?
I'm also curious if he knows the difference between a Lincoln Navigator and a Chevrolet (or GMC) Suburban. He kept referring the the same vehicle as both in one section of the book.
Had I known how bad the last part was, I wouldn't have bothered reading the book. The first 80% wasn't good enough to make up for the last 20%.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The adventure continues
Review: Shane Scully series by Stephen J. Cannell is a must read! The whole series has great plots and lots of suspense. This book is no different and the plot is very contemporary, yet unusual.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Shane Scully returns
Review: For a couple decades starting in the mid-Seventies, Stephen J. Cannell was one of the biggest TV writer/producers around, responsible for such shows as The Rockford Files, Wiseguy, The A-Team and 21 Jump Street. In the past few years, however, he has focused more on writing and - after writing a few standalone novels - has now written a series of novels featuring LA detective Shane Scully.
In White Sister, Cannell offers a little change-of-pace by having Shane narrate instead of using the third person point-of-view. I suppose this is a necessary shift as Shane will undergo a major personal crisis in this book and the first-person viewpoint can show his internal feelings better. The crisis involves his wife, Alexa, who has turned up missing and who seems linked to the death of an undercover (and possibly dirty) cop.
Although Alexa will be found reasonably quickly (within the first 100 pages), things are far from good. Not only does evidence point to her having committed murder, but it appears she was the dead cop's lover (and the fact that he was black adds race into the equation as well). Far worse, however, is she is in grave condition, having apparently shot herself after confessing to the murder. It takes all of Shane's love and willpower to believe in her despite the evidence, and his efforts to find the truth will endanger his own job and will even get him accused of a role in the killing.
If Alexa's not the killer (and no faithful reader of the Shane Scully books will believe she is), then who is responsible? The answers will be found in a somewhat muddled plot involving intrigue in the world of rap music, with the center of everything being Stacy Maluga (the White Sister of the title), the wife of a major rap music producer.
Cannell still cannot fully escape his TV writer roots. On the plus side, this means he is a more-than-competent writer who moves things along well. On the minus side, he can be rather formulaic and he can't seem to make the push from being an okay writer to a great one (the ending of this novel includes a bit of silliness that better writers would avoid). In short, this qualifies as a so-called "beach read": a light and fast-reading book with shallow but decent entertainment value.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Death Row Records
Review: This book is another well writen one by the master of the pen, Stephen J Cannell. Rather then go through the plot of the book, since others have already done that, I will mention that to me, this book was loosely based on Death Row Records, and the LA rap scene from that timeframe. In fact, the owner of the main label in the book sounds exactly like Suge Knight, and there is an awards show in the same place that Biggie was gunned down. So, if the whole Death Row thing interests you and you haven't read a Cannell book, check this out. Oh yeah, and Shanes wife is in a coma!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Melodrama and clichés ad nauseum ad infinitum
Review: While I have always thought that Stephen Cannell's "Shane Scully" novels were easily beyond plausibility, I have always enjoyed them just the same. White Sister, however, was a chore to get through. I often found myself skipping to the next paragraph or two each time he gets his "soliloquy" on. With astounding frequency, the main character begins to wax poetic about ______ (you fill in the blank) to the point that you expect him to break into a West-Side-Story-esque song and dance.
The "I know I lied to you five times and broke my promises to you three times in the past 10 minutes, but trust me this time." bit got quite old.
There were a lot of little worn out constructs and clichés used repeatedly, time after time, over and over again, and repetitively throughout the book.