Liebermans Choice, Stuart M. Kaminsky
Liebermans Choice, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Lieberman's Choice

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/18/2021

Synopsis

Two Chicago cops need to defuse an explosive situation in this "tightly plotted" police procedural (Chicago Tribune).

After killing his wife and her lover, an unhinged and heavily armed Chicago cop named Bernie Shepard barricades himself at the top of a high-rise apartment building and sends a message to the police: meet his demands, or he'll detonate enough explosives to blow the whole block sky high.

If it's a choice between chewing the fat at his brother Maish's deli or hunting down armed lunatics, world-weary veteran cop Abe Lieberman knows where he stands. But no one's giving him a choice. It's up to Lieberman and his longtime partner, Bill Hanrahan—a.k.a. the Rabbi and Father Murphy—to play Bernie's game, betting their lives on a madman's whim.

With a crazed cop holding "enough explosives to blow the North Side of Chicago to kingdom come . . . Kaminsky mines plenty of suspense" (The New York Times Book Review).

About Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema-two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.

Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on July 22, 2021

I guess I rated this book as three stars a while back when I first joined Goodreads. I recently picked it up again and reread it. Reading this time more as an author maybe made difference. I loved this book. Its a fast read and I was thoroughly engrossed with the story, the characters and the craft......more

Goodreads review by Mike on October 02, 2019

This is a nice cliffhanger. The action is fast-paced, the hero, Lieberman, is a great character, and the story is told with a minimum of extra verbiage.......more

Goodreads review by John R. Goyer on December 27, 2020

I enjoyed Kaminsky's russian book so much I had to try this one which tells a tale set in Chicago. The characters are wonderfully nuanced as in the other book, but the story was only good, not great. A couple loosely couple tales, with some loose ends when the book finished. Enjoyable reading, and I......more

Goodreads review by Bob on February 04, 2025

Summary: A cop kills his wife and the cop who is sleeping with her, and threatens to blow up a city block unless one demand is met. Abe Lieberman can’t get to sleep. And then the phone rings. A fellow policeman walked into his apartment with a loaded shotgun and blew away his wife and the cop she was......more

Goodreads review by Linda on July 11, 2024

Not a strong 4* for me but close. I am sure I would appreciate it more if I were brought up in Chicago during this time frame because it seems to be a pretty good history of the neighborhoods at that time compared to current times. Even though Kaminisky has written a zillion books and has won many p......more

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