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    Needles

    By William Deverell

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    A prosecutor fights a drug trafficker—and his own heroin addiction—in this thriller from a Dashiell Hammett Prize– and Arthur Ellis Award–winning author.
     
    Lawyer Foster Cobb’s objective is to bring down the mysterious Dr. Au, responsible for the drugs that flow through Vancouver. But under the pressure of a disintegrating career and marriage, Cobb himself has himself taken up a long-abandoned heroin habit.
     
    With a racing plot and dramatic twists, Needles plunges into a seedy 1970s underworld of crooked cops, Asian drug lords, and tense courtroom scenes. A winner of the Seal First Novel Award, it’s a riveting tale of crime and justice with “surprises like shattering glass,” from an author who has sold over a million copies (Philadelphia Bulletin).
     
    “Spellbinding, first-rate.” —The Buffalo News
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 1, 2002
    ISBN9781770905399
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    William Deverell

    After working his way through law school as a news reporter and editor, Bill Deverell was a criminal lawyer in Vancouver before publishing the first of his 16 novels: "Needles", which won the $50,000 Seal Award. "Trial of Passion" won the 1997 Dashiell Hammett award for literary excellence in crime writing in North America, as well as the Arthur Ellis prize in crime writing in Canada. "April Fool" was also an Ellis winner, and his recent two novels, "Kill All the Judges" and :Snow Job" were shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Prize in Humour. His two latest Arthur Beauchamp courtroom dramas, "I'll See You in My Dreams", and "Sing a Worried Song" were released in 2011 and 2013 respectively. His novels have been translated into fourteen languages and sold worldwide. He created CBC's long-running TV series "Street Legal", which has run internationally in more than 80 countries. He was Visiting Professor of Creative Writing University of Victoria, and twice served as Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada. He is a founder and honourary director of the BC Civil Liberties Association and is a Green activist. He has been awarded two honourary doctorates in letters, from Simon Fraser University and the University of Saskatchewan. He lives on Pender Island, British Columbia.

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    • 4/5
      I received this from the Narrator/Producer Steve Scherf for a fair and honest review.Without looking at the original publication date of this book I could tell it was from the 70’s it definitely has a 70’s Noir feel to it. This is a good courtroom drama (and much more) with a very flawed, heroin addicted lawyer as our main character Foster Cobb. There is a lot going on in this book and it all centers around Cobb who has been trying to put away Dr. Au who is a scary twisted man and is going to make sure he doesn’t go to prison no matter who he has to intimidate, kill or make disappear, including Cobb.As I said this book has a 70’s vibe going on, and in some ways reminded me of Ed McBain’s writing, very dark and gritty and life ain’t easy especially when your strung out on heroin and fighting for your life as the person you are prosecuting is trying to kill you and you have more troubles than just those. Even though this describes Cobb you still can’t help but root for him even if he is strung out and not always a good guy you still want him to survive.I would probably read more by this author as the writing is good. If you like gritty crime/lawyer books I’d give this one a try.This is a performance audiobook all female characters done by a female and all male by a male, also there is a lot of music and a lot of background noises ie: gunshots, crowd noises and such. When I see more than one narrator I always assume that it will be a certain character per narrator but this one is done differently with all female by Maggie Scherf and all male by Steve Scherf which is different so is taking me a little to get used to. Also there is a lot of music that could really just not be there, I know this is an annoyance for a lot of people. Also traffic sounds were very unnecessary. However Steve Scherf has an impressive arsenal of different voices and dialects so not sure why the female narrator was added he is great at so many different voices that I am so curious if he isn’t comfortable doing female voices? Is he bad at them? Which, I honestly can’t imagine because all his different voices are pretty darn impressive. I am also not sure what I think of Maggie’s voice I don’t know if it’s her voice I don’t like or the format of the audiobook, when the female voice pops in it kind of takes me out of the story and am really confused as to why it was added in the first place.3 Stars-book4 stars-Steve Scherf’s narrationSo 3 1/2 Overall