Vertical Coffin
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Vertical Coffin by Stephen J Cannell
A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional fire storm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of failing to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house. Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by a member of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor5, the LAPD - an uninvolved and unbiased agency - assigns Shane to investigate. He is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity.Stephen J. Cannell (1941-2010) was the author of the bestselling Shane Scully books, including The Prostitute's Ball, The Pallbearers, and Three Shirt Deal. He was also an Emmy Award winning television writer and producer, and in his thirty-five-year-career, he created or co-created more than forty TV series. Among his hits were The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish. He received numerous awards, including the Saturn Award - Life Career Award (2004), The Marlow Lifetime Achievement Award from Mystery Writers of America (2005), and the WGA Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement (2006). Having overcome severe dyslexia, Cannell was an avid spokesperson on the condition and an advocate for children and adults with learning disabilities. He was a third-generation Californian and resided in the Pasadena area with his wife, Marcia, and their children.
| SKU | CIN0312304250VG |
| ISBN 13 | 9780312304256 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312304250 |
| Title | Vertical Coffin |
| Author | Stephen J Cannell |
| Series | Shane Scully Novel |
| Condition | Very Good |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2004-01-23 |
| Number of pages | 335 |
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