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| The Front | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (214 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1751
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0399154183
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399154188
ASIN: 0399154183
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The audacious new adventure of the At Risk team from America?s #1 bestselling crime writer.
When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of At Risk, the result was electrifying: ?At Risk is Cornwell?s finest novel. It works in every way possible? fascinating characters, solid plot, great pacing and expertly crafted prose? (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); ?Absolutely the best. Here?s hoping we?ll see more of Win, Monique, Nana and Sykes in the coming years. They are the best characters to emerge from Cornwell?s creative pen since . . . well, Kay Scarpetta? (The Denver Post).
At Risk featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano, a shrewd man of mixed-race background and a notinconsiderable chip on his shoulder; District Attorney Monique Lamont, a hard-charging woman with powerful ambitions and a troubling willingness to cut corners; and Garano?s grandmother, who has certain unpredictable talents that you ignore at your peril.
And in The Front, peril is what comes to them all. D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she?s sending him to Watertown to ?come up with a drama,? and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up in order that they don?t have to be so dependent on the state?much to Lamont?s anger. He senses a much deeper agenda here?but he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, he?ll find that Lamont?s task, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrors?everywhere he turns, he?s not quite sure if what he?s seeing is true.
?Falsehoods rule,? warns his grandmother. And they can also kill.
This is the master writing at the absolute top of her game. You will never guess what lies behind The Front.
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 This little book is Cornwell's worst. September 30, 2008
I used to really enjoy Patricia Cornwell's work, but I got very little enjoyment out of The Front. It's a small book, more of a novella than a novel. The publisher reduced the overall size of the book and set the type with line-and-a-half spacing just to make it appear as if you're getting you're money's worth. The plot just doesn't ever develop. Without very much explanation as to how, the 40-something year old mystery is solved. Detective Win reads an old box of files from the original case and without revealing very much to the reader about what he finds in the files, he announces just what had happened. I won't be buying any more books in this series.
 Poor September 25, 2008
I am a Patricia Cornwell fan, but am finding myself questioning as of late WHY???!!! The Front was slow to start and when it did pick up speed, it faltered once again.
Though there were limited pages, it didn't captivate; forcing one to wonder if it was a rushed publication.
Nevertheless, I'm going to give Ms. Cornwell another chance with "Scarpetta" and hopefully it will allow me to continue as a fan and if not, its one less book purchased in the future.
OMG September 24, 2008
This book was really really bad. Occasionally, I could see Cornwell's talent come through in a description, but for the most part it was not worth my time to read and certainly not worth paying full price for. Thank goodness I got it through a book club.
The plot was confusing, I'd even say non-sensical. None of the characters were sufficiently developed to make me give a hoot about them or what they do, and she never really explains why they do things in a reasonable way. More than once, I found myself thinking "WTF?" as events in the book took one silly or bizarre turn or another.
No More . . . September 8, 2008
This was my first Cornwell novel, and most likely my last. Glad this was a Library book, I wouldn't have wanted to waste money on such a disappointing novel. I thought the end would tie things neatly together, but it was over so quickly I found the end very confusing. Although I could have gone back and re-read the last chapter, I couldn't put myself through it.
Just don't get it September 1, 2008
Am I the only person out there who just didn't get what the title of this book had to do with the story? I just keep hoping and hoping that PC will put out a good book again, and it just never happens. I didn't get it with much hope, and it was a good thing. First off, the book is not a normal sized volume; it is small, with short pages and big type with a skinny spine. What happened to the big, thick Scarpetta novels of the 90s, full of details and stories that made you want to stay up all night reading because you just couldn't put it down? Second, the story and the characters were so weak, this was like a short story from high school lit, not the kind of novel that PC used to put out. It jumped all over the place, and the events in the story just made no sense. Then instead of chapters of suspense leading up to and ending that you didn't see coming, but made so much sense, the story was just "ended" on just a couple of pages, with an ending that you're left sitting going "What?!" I probably will always read her novels because I loved them so in the 90s, but I will never spend my own money on them, so that the most I lose is my time. The only reason I finished this book was the fact that it really was only a short story. Did you ever think that a PC novel would be painful to read, and readable in just a couple of hours? It's like all the story in PC has been used up and there is nothing left in there. I hate that I now expect to be disappointed.
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