Gerald Petievich appartiene a quel ristretto gruppo di scrittori che provengono dal mondo delle forze dell'ordine alla narrativa poliziesca. I suoi romanzi, attingendo alle sue ricche esperienze come controspia dell'esercito e agente dei Servizi Segreti statunitensi, raggiungono una notevole verosimiglianza, spingendo i confini del realismo nel genere mystery e thriller. La sua voce autentica e la sua prospettiva interna offrono ai lettori uno sguardo accattivante e schietto su mondi che pochi autori hanno vissuto in prima persona. La sua opera si distingue per i dettagli crudi e la spinta narrativa, immergendo il lettore nelle realtà ad alto rischio che ritrae con tale maestria.
From the author of To Die in Beverly Hills comes a harrowing tale of the dark underside of America's West Coast metropolis. Two U.S. Treasury agents, partners and antagonists, are drawn into a matrix of violence and corruption, southern California-style, that becomes a journey through a sunlit hell - at the end of which they become experts on the thin line between what it takes to live - and die - in L.A. To Live and Die in L.A., the book that inspired the major motion picture.
Detective Sergeant Jose Stepanovich is a member of a new elite gang suppression unit in the Los Angeles Police department. The unit has the verbal go-ahead from the mayor on down to do whatever is needed to end the gang's rule of this city. The members of the unit were picked because of their expertise in the ways of the gangs. They are able to think like their targets, anticipate their actions and often alter the outcome. But adopting the gang's thinking has a downside. Soon there's a little difference between the good guys and the bad in their savagery and vindictiveness. The unit is effective, but at a cost. And the cost may be too high for the top brass to continue their support. Earth Angels delves into the darkest side of law enforcement, where duty becomes a double-edged sword and a man must face his own past and decide what is more important-his job, his convictions, or his life.
When Eddie Sands decides to shake down a famous Hollywood star whose sex life could ruin his screen career, he sets off a chain of events that leads straight to the white-hot center of Las Vegas, and brings down on himself the attentions of Tony Parisi, the mob's kingpin of Las Vegas, and FBI agent John Novak.
Entscheidung in Las Vegas - bk672; Heyne Verlag; Gerald Petievich; pocket_book; 1988
