The Traffickers (Badge of Honor, Book 9)

by W.E.B. Griffin

2010

Status

Available

Publication

G.P. Putnam's Sons (2010), Edition: Reprint, 544 pages

Description

Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly Love to the Texas-Mexico border.

User reviews

LibraryThing member DocWalt10

Page turner hard to put down. I never want the story to end. As usual, he does like to remind you, who the characters are. Unfortunately, this takes up the space he could use to expand the current story. Great story teller and I love him.

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LibraryThing member DeaconBernie

Typical Griffin book. Butterworth is melding in better too. I give high marks for all of Griffin's works but each of them shares a similar flaw: every work takes it time setting the scene, identifying the characters and then progresses to what seems to be an inevitable result, except the end is so

very rushed..

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LibraryThing member honoliipali

A decent read but a bit muddled. I never got in tune with the characters - probably because there are so many and several go by more than one name. This was my first Griffin read - I will give the author another chance.

LibraryThing member utbw42

I liked the plot, but it appears to me that the Griffin co-author books are mostly written by his son, Butterworth IV, and thus the writing was not quite as sharp or focused as the previous Badge Of Honor novels. I felt this book tended to drag somewhat in the middle, but overall I enjoyed it.

LibraryThing member buffalogr

Drugs, human trafficking, cowboys and cops...lots of action. However, it's typical Griffin--every work takes it time setting the scene, identifying the characters and then progresses to what seems to be an inevitable result, Sometimes, all this is maddeningly slow. Griffin books repeat a lot of old

information and tidbits, so if you get lost in the plot or become inattentive, it'll come up again. It allows the reader to invest over the long haul in his characters, which I have done...what's happening next to Matt Payne? As always, the plot just ends.

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