Copp in Shock (Joe Copp Series #6)

by Don Pendleton

Overview

The Joe Copp Series by Don Pendleton

In Don Pendleton's Copp In Shock, Private Eye Joe Copp is recovering from a bout of partial amnesia after being nearly blown away with his own gun. A woman is dead and police are trying to pin the murder on Copp Pursued by cops and an unknown assailant, Copp's search for answers leads him from Los Angeles to the Mammoth Lakes mountain resort, and to the edge of insanity as he careens toward lethal truth.

Publishers Weekly: “This Joe Copp adventure reads like an express train. A throwback to the vintage Spillane era, Pendleton knows how to keep us turning the pages.”
St. Petersburg Times: “Pendleton has a great new character in Copp. His style is fresh, the pace is brisk, and there are enough twists to please any mystery fan.”

Don Pendleton created the best-selling Executioner, Mack Bolan Series; Joe Copp Private Eye Series; and the Ashton Ford Psychic Detective Series. He published more than one hundred books, fiction and nonfiction.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011149740
Publisher:	Don Pendleton
Publication date:	11/28/2010
Series:	Joe Copp Series , #6
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	309 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Don Pendleton (1927-1995) was creator of the popular The Executioner: Mack Bolan series and is considered the “father of the action/adventure” literary genre. His fiction includes the Joe Copp and Ashton Ford mystery series of six novels each. He collaborated with his wife, Linda Pendleton on the crime novel Roulette, The Search for the Sunrise Killer, and on several nonfiction books including To Dance With Angels and Whispers From the Soul. Don Pendleton published more than one hundred novels, which have sold close to two hundred million copies world-wide in numerous languages, and several nonfiction books. In December, 2014, the original The Executioner, 37 novels were published as ebooks by Open Road Media and are available at online ebook retailers: Amazon Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iTunes, Google, etc. In 2018, Linda Pendleton published his Executioner short story, Willing to Kill, originally published in 1978. Read more about Don Pendleton at the official websites, maintained by Linda Pendleton. http://www.donpendleton.com http://www.executionerseries.com

Editorial Reviews

Pendleton first made a splash with the neo-pulp Executioner series, and his sixth Joe Copp thriller ( Copp On Ice etc.) is true to those roots: each short chapter features at least one major plot twist or murder. PI Copp wakes up in an L.A. hospital suffering from amnesia and a gunshot wound. He doesn't recognize the name of Martha Kaufman, whom he learns was killed in his house at the same time he was injured. Escaping from the hospital to his home, Copp finds a clue that sends him to a small mountain town in Northern California, where the locals seem to know him, where Martha Kaufman's art gallery and home seem famliar--and where he finds a recent Lake Tahoe marriage license for Martha Kaufman and Joe Copp! That's just the start of a roller-coaster ride of mayhem, murder and a million-dollar cache in a safe deposit box. The ending is a Big Switcheroo, also bloody, that will surprise readers. But Pendleton plays fair and square; if his tale isn't very deep (``There are a lot of badass people out on the streets--anywhere, everywhere'') it's still rollicking fun. (May)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly