Pictures a novel edition by Robert Daley Literature Fiction eBooks
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Explosive photos appear in every scandal magazine in Europe. A dynasty is threatened. Vince Conte, a defrocked New York Police captain now working for a discrete security firm, is assigned to find out what happened. Who was the woman, who was the photographer, who paid to have those photos made? The woman is hard to find, and once found hard to control. The photographer is even harder to find. The investigation takes Conte to Milan, Amsterdam, the French Riviera, Rome, the Alps. Answers turn up that no one wants to hear. Then people start dying, and Conte, torn between revealing the truth and keeping his job, may be next.
Pictures a novel edition by Robert Daley Literature Fiction eBooks
I've read and enjoyed most if not all of the authors novels. Typically he writes very realistically. This book was ,too over the top. The hero, former NYPD Captain Vincent Conte, had been on a fast track to move up in the department. Unfortunately, on the way, he discovered his wife was having an affair with a Deputy Chief. He confronted the Chief with his fists and was forced to resign. He then began working for a private investigation company. An assignment came up from a small duchy in the Alps near France, Monaco and Italy. Scandal and murders ensued involving The Duke,His Daughter,His son-law, a photographer, a model and a corrupt Italian detective. Conte ends up falling in love with the model. He goes past his assignment as he tries to come to the bottom of things. All in all, the plot is interesting and fast moving. My problems with this read are that I never particularly liked the character of the hero cop Conte. The plot lost reality as he operated in the tiny duchy as though he was back in NYC. Imagine this. He was trying to escape at the top of a mountain peak with snow, cold and wind. He was just wearing a business suit. He got caught in an avalanche. Naturally in this book he survived. I think the author is better at straight forward crime novels with a bit less romance.Product details
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Pictures a novel edition by Robert Daley Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Reviewed by Beverly J. Rowe
Vince Conte is back. He destroyed his career with the NYPD when he caught the deputy police commissioner coming out of a hotel with Conte's wife. He assaulted the man, with no questions asked, and lost his job and his wife. Now he's working as a private investigator with a security firm. The firm is hired to investigate some poolside photos taken of Tony Murano and a sexy babe that may not be what they appear to be.
Tony is a small-time tennis pro who is married to the daughter of the monarch of a small European Dutchy. She is pregnant with the heir, and the girl's mother believes Tony's claim that he is innocent. Unfortunately, the king is sure that the photos are authentic, and since they appear in a multitude of magazines and newspapers, a divorce is quickly granted. The young wife and her mother are sure that it was, as Tony maintains, a set up.
Conte locates the woman in the photos, and she is ultimately convinced to help out with his investigation. The trail of the photographer leads to Amsterdam, Monte Carlo, Milan and several other stops, and Conte falls in love with the beautiful Gigi in the process.
This novel is not quite what I expected from Robert Daley, but is a very entertaining read nevertheless. Daley weaves a bit more romance into this international romp than his usual NYPD tales in a high-octane thriller is laced with deception, betrayal, blackmail and murder. It is loaded with compelling characters and a fast-paced plot that kept me reading late into the night.
Armchair Interviews says Don't start this book if you have something else that needs to be done that day.
I can't recall what prompted me to buy Daley's "Pictures", but as a crime thriller it was strangely listless and I think the underlying reason was Daley's need to invent a European country and continually glance at it sideways as if to check it was still there.
It seemed that creative geographic energy stole from plotting and character development, because nothing quite rang true - most of the motivations were cartoonist at best, and not even stereotypical bad at worst.
In particular, Augustin II, a heavy weight protagonist and hereditary ruler of the invented Grand Duchy, seems contradictorily too simplistic and yet way smart to dominate events in the way that Daley manoeuvres.
But it is the world weary somewhat hero, Vince Conte who I found particularly annoying. Having side swiped his police career he's lost in the world until he spies the pretty damsel in distress. Not even the large dose of introspection and suspicion of his own behaviour - which I usually like in novels - covers up the cracks in Conte's overly cynical viewpoint.
So, not even a "by the numbers" book. Daley has written over two dozen novels, mostly fiction (and a handful with co-authors) so I'm thinking this dud is a one off. I'll probably read another of his books just to check, but that's only if it comes to me, after "Pictures" I am not going to actively search for it.
A very good book based on it's premise. Should be entertaining to just about anyone.
As well written as you might expect from a Daley novel, it really is less and less a mystery as the reader begins to understand the people involved in the story. The reader comes to care about these people and how they deal with the challenges that face them. A very satisfying story and not one to be read too quickly.
I've read and enjoyed most if not all of the authors novels. Typically he writes very realistically. This book was ,too over the top. The hero, former NYPD Captain Vincent Conte, had been on a fast track to move up in the department. Unfortunately, on the way, he discovered his wife was having an affair with a Deputy Chief. He confronted the Chief with his fists and was forced to resign. He then began working for a private investigation company. An assignment came up from a small duchy in the Alps near France, Monaco and Italy. Scandal and murders ensued involving The Duke,His Daughter,His son-law, a photographer, a model and a corrupt Italian detective. Conte ends up falling in love with the model. He goes past his assignment as he tries to come to the bottom of things. All in all, the plot is interesting and fast moving. My problems with this read are that I never particularly liked the character of the hero cop Conte. The plot lost reality as he operated in the tiny duchy as though he was back in NYC. Imagine this. He was trying to escape at the top of a mountain peak with snow, cold and wind. He was just wearing a business suit. He got caught in an avalanche. Naturally in this book he survived. I think the author is better at straight forward crime novels with a bit less romance.
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