Word: copping
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...knows the labyrinthine world of Venice or the way favoritism and corruption shape Italian life like Leon's Brunetti. Blood from a Stone is not her best plot, but fortunately all 13 other Brunettis are now in paperback for those who have not yet met the thoughtful Venetian cop with a love of food, an outspoken wife and a computer-hacker secretary who plays man Friday to his detective...
London under siege in World War II is Lawton's prime subject, brilliantly evoked even when Troy, now a Scotland Yard chief superintendent, sets off in pursuit of a cop killer in 1959. In Flesh Wounds, you can feel the gritty pain of a city that has barely begun to rebuild from the ruins of the blitz, as Troy finds his trail winding backward to bloody events in the grim winter...
...Hitler's Peace, is a cunning what-if riff on the little-remembered 1943 Big Three conference to set the rules for German surrender. Yes, it's actually thrilling. And it will make you rush to read Berlin Noir (out in paper), a masterly trio of mysteries starring ex-cop Bernie Gunther as he struggles with notions of justice in 1930's Germany, soaked in the seamy authenticity of Hitler's world...
...refuse to grow up in real life, squiring a steady string of twentysomethings and throwing raucous parties, but onscreen, at least, BRUCE WILLIS, 50, has been embracing the realities of aging. In Sin City he was a 60-year-old cop on his last mission. Now he adopts a paunch and receding hairline to play another past-his-prime policeman escorting a witness on an ill-fated trek from precinct to courthouse in 16 Blocks, a thriller that unfolds in real time. Willis hand-picked his co-star, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's MOS DEF, after seeing...
West won't cop to exaggerating his petulance. "I was just trying to create some entertainment," he says, adding that his act will probably tone down in the future because "people mature" and "I have a lot more to lose." In another context he admits to a contradiction truly worthy of him: in his attempt to shatter the rapper stereotype, he's sometimes willing to behave stereotypically. "Take the word nigga," West says. "I don't like the word, and I made an attempt to change it on this new song Crack Music"--an indictment of drug abuse. "I tried...