Lieberman's Choice
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Publisher Description
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—aka 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).
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Sixty-year-old Chicago cop Abe Lieberman (introduced in the praised Lieberman's Folly ) returns in a deliberately minimalist story carried by dialogue and characterization. Abe would rather shoot the breeze with his pals in the local deli than brave the mean streets of the Windy City's north side. He's not scared or lazy, just wise and fond of his life, which includes an independent wife, a difficult daughter, a pompous son-in-law and Hanrahan, his boozing Irish partner. Fellow cop Bernie Shephard finds his wife and another cop in bed and blows them away, retreating to the roof of his apartment building with food, his dog, guns and explosives. He kills a couple of gung-ho SWAT-team snipers and is willing to die himself, planning to take several blocks of real estate with him when he goes. An assortment of official plans to thwart him yields to a final rooftop confrontation with Abe and the police captain. As orchestrated by Kaminsky (author also of the Porfiry Rostnikov series), Abe's conversation--whether with his old Jewish buddies, some small-time cons or his family--is pure pleasure, with never a false, extraneous note.
