A Faint Cold Fear

by Robert Daley

The bestselling author of Prince of the City and Year of the Dragon returns to the dramatic world of the NYPD cop in this explosive page-turner that takes readers from the asphalt jungle of New York to the Amazon. "A first-rate, thought-provoking thriller".--Entertainment Weekly.

Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Crime

480 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Robert Daley is the author of seventeen novels and eleven non-fiction books. Born and brought up in New York, he graduated from Fordham University, did his military service in the Air Force and began writing stories, articles and books immediately afterward. He was a New York Times foreign correspondents for six years based in France but covering stories from Russia to Ireland to Tunisia, fifteen or more countries in all. Much later he served as an NYPD deputy commissioner, which explains why many of his books have played out against a police background. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and six of his books have been filmed. He is married with three daughters. He and his French born wife divide their time between a house in Connecticut and an apartment in Nice. France.

Reviews

[Mary Patricia · Rating 5 out of 5]

A true story of the drug problem

A thorough review of the drug problem. Mr. Daley writes with thorough knowledge and description. An interesting and hard to put down novel.

[Hadassah Mullin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this novel. Had A Lot of good laughs, definitely had me shook at certain scenes but all in all it was a good read. Recommended to all.

[Dakota Sarrazin · Rating 3 out of 5]

wasn't terrible as I thought but differently a decent criminally cook

[Tara · Rating 1 out of 5]

this is one my kids randomly picked off the library shelves at my request. I don't give one star lightly, but I can't think of any redeeming qualities of this book. True I don't read crime thrillers that often, but I've read enough to know that the writing of this one is subpar. The author used one technique-switching between characters' points of view, randomly and in the middle of chapters. This proved confusing at the beginning, and annoying at the end because he would switch just as things were getting interesting. Not intense, just interesting. As a result, nothing happened in the book. On top of that, there were fairly graphic descriptions of sex and violence, characters I didn't care about, and because it was written in the 90s, it felt antiquated. I wanted to stop reading it 20-50 pages in, which to be fair, I feel with other books and don't because I feel like it's my job as an English major to finish them. This time I should have listened. So if you want to try it and don't love it by the first section, don't bother continuing, it won't get any better.

[Partridge Public]

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[Angela · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book just did not keep my interest. It bored me to tears. Sadly I did not make it past the first chapter.

[Kenneth Nordqvist · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably on of the best cop book writer

[Sherrie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too many shallow characters and too thin a plot make this a disappointing effort from an author that I usually enjoy reading.