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Joe Copp #2
Copp on Fire
Joe Copps Hollywood investigation expands when he is named an accomplice to murder, and more bodies turn up as he probes the corporate offices and backlots of the Hollywood studios
222 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1988
About the author
Don Pendleton
1,529 books194 followersDon Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 12, 1927 and died October 23, 1995 in Arizona.
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
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October 23, 2014
Don Pendleton is best known of course for creating The Executioner Mack Bolan and later turning it into an empire. But he wrote other things as well and very good in their own right. Former policeman P.I. Joe Copp was one. COPP ON FIRE was the second of six published in 1988.
Joe Copp, though like most P.I.s close to broke all the time, didn't really want the job, eve when $1300.00 in cash was laid in his hands. A handicapped man in a big white limousine wanted him for ten hours to take photos of people entering and leaving a business. He was looking for a rat. The man remained unidentified and after spending the day taking photos Joe met and turned the film, undeveloped, over to the chauffeur.
That's when things went downhill fast. The business blew up. a bomb took out the limousine and it's occupants, and the people Joe had photographed started getting knocked off one by one. He'd turned over his copies to the police and one wanted to hang the whole mess on Joe.
Figuring he'd been set up to the the fall, Joe got mad and went hunting, even as more bodies were showing up.
Nicely plotted and paced novel that I couldn't stop reading.
Joe Copp, though like most P.I.s close to broke all the time, didn't really want the job, eve when $1300.00 in cash was laid in his hands. A handicapped man in a big white limousine wanted him for ten hours to take photos of people entering and leaving a business. He was looking for a rat. The man remained unidentified and after spending the day taking photos Joe met and turned the film, undeveloped, over to the chauffeur.
That's when things went downhill fast. The business blew up. a bomb took out the limousine and it's occupants, and the people Joe had photographed started getting knocked off one by one. He'd turned over his copies to the police and one wanted to hang the whole mess on Joe.
Figuring he'd been set up to the the fall, Joe got mad and went hunting, even as more bodies were showing up.
Nicely plotted and paced novel that I couldn't stop reading.
March 30, 2024
I really enjoy Pendleton doing Spillane. Pendleton actually does it better. Copp is hired to do a simple surveillance job for a big Hollywood insider but of course it doesn't stay that way. Bodies start falling and he gets set up as the patsy which doesn't make him real happy. So he goes on the hunt to figure out who is doing the killing, why, and to clear his name. When dealing with Hollywood folk nothing is as it appears.
Highly recommended, the first two are both great and entertaining reads.
Highly recommended, the first two are both great and entertaining reads.
February 18, 2012
These books are the perfect length to listen to at work. This is book 2 in the Joe Copp series. The storyline isn't real complicated so you don't get lost while listening to them and working. Joe Copp is a retired cop who is now a Private Investigator.
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