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    Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel
    Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel
    Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel
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    Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel

    Written by Peter Robinson

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

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    “Brilliant! With Bad Boy, author Robinson once again achieves the high bar he’s set in all his previous Inspector Banks books…This one will stay with you for a long time.”
    —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of Roadside Crosses

    Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most challenging, personal, and terrifying case yet when his own daughter crosses paths with a psychopath, in Peter Robinson’s superb Bad Boy. Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, calls the novels of Peter Robinson, “chilling, evocative, deeply nuanced works of art.” Stephen King calls them, “the best series now on the market.” If you have not yet discovered this New York Times bestselling crime fiction master and his exceptional detective, now is definitely the time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateAug 24, 2010
    ISBN9780062006974
    Author

    Peter Robinson

    One of the world’s most popular and acclaimed writers, Peter Robinson was the bestselling, award-winning author of the DCI Banks series. He also wrote two short-story collections and three stand-alone novels, which combined have sold more than ten million copies around the world. Among his many honors and prizes were the Edgar Award, the CWA (UK) Dagger in the Library Award, and the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Martin Beck Award.

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    • 3/5
      Walter Dean Myers recounts what life was like growing up in Harlem, NY during the 1940's and 1950's. Appropriate for middle school and beyond.
    • 5/5
      I am so glad to have read this book with my 6th-grade students! What honesty he exhibits about his life and struggles! I love that there is a happy ending, and it was actually quite easy for my students to arrive at a message he was communicating to them. There were parts I would not read aloud with them from Myers' teen years, but it was all part of his complete honesty about his life. Many students were so engaged in this book for its honesty and its right in your face approach to the racism Myers encountered when he grew up. Every parent should read this book and then let their middle or high school aged kids read it.
    • 5/5
      An awful lot depends on the reader..........needs to be convincing ..........this reader is so good u almost forget u r listening to a story.....if that makes sense xx
    • 4/5
      This Autobiography shows how Walter struggled on his way to be a men, he had to choose from right and wrong to succeed. Walter also wanted to do the best to be a good man and succeed. Walter was also a great writer, Everyone always likes to hear about a kid growing up black in Harlem, and the struggles of a family trying to do their very best to take out a good living life. Once he was disgusted of how he was living life and so then he remembered a fellow teacher back in elementary school that once told him, “Whatever you do don’t stop writing”. Walter Didn’t stop he wrote a book and then became an award winning author. I recommend this book because it shows how people lived life back then and also how little money they had to survive the hard times, I also recommend it because it shows how hard working was Walter to succeed
    • 3/5
      This memoir is an account of Walter Dean Myers' childhood in Harlem. While this memoir may be difficult to incorporate into a middle school classroom, Myers' tales show how his inner struggles and questions helped to shape himself as a writer. The questions and confusion that he experienced as a teen, highly influenced by his own race and how he fit into the world, is one that can be translated into many teenagers lives. I think this book would be beneficial for any student who may be struggling to find his or her place in any environment. I enjoyed reading about his childhood and look forward to exploring his fiction books as well.
    • 5/5
      4Q - some sentiments and descriptions are well beyond most of the YA range, although very beautifully rendered, and with a naked honesty that is deeply touching.3P - sadly, this is not likely to appeal to mainstream YA very strongly, although it really does deserve to.
    • 3/5
      personal response: After reading about his life, particularly his early childhood, I am amazed Walter Dean Myers is still alive. He sounds like he took a lot of stupid risks as a kid. Overall, it was nice to see where he came from and how he became the person that wrote wonderful stories like Monster. When he describes his friend throwing away a stack of comic books every month I cringed. How could someone do that? I wonder what treasures were discarded.curricular connections:a must to include in an author study. reflection of mid-20th century domestic history
    • 4/5
      For older students who get in trouble a lot, this autobiography by Walter Dean Myers has good lessons about rising above what you have been dealt and moving on. Boys who have been in trouble like this book.
    • 4/5
      An interesting memoir recounting the difficulties of growing up smart and black, both adding to his sense of alienation. Writing simple and straightforward which nonetheless left me anxiously anticipating what would happen next. Includes good depictions of Harlem in the 1940's and 50's.
    • 3/5
      This is the 19th Inspector Banks novel. They are one of my favorite British mystery series. The last book in the series was pretty heavy handed, with lots of international spy stuff. Banks went through quite the emotional ringer in that one. This book starts with him on vacation in the American southwest trying to recover. Back home, his 24-year-old daughter had gotten her self mixed up with a charming young man who turns out to be the "bad boy" of the story. Banks himself doesn't join the action until nearly halfway through the story and never really catches up to the action. A nice change of pace for the series.
    • 5/5
      How much more can Banks, and the people who surround him take? In recent books, he has had his house burned down, with him inside, had girlfriends lost to criminal pressure, lost a colleague and now, his daughter and himself placed in severe danger and Annie shot.The story builds quickly and holds one's attention to the final pages. What more can a reader ask? Peter Robinson seems to suspend reality. The world of Banks becomes a new reality. Cracking!
    • 4/5
      I have been thoroughly enjoying the Inspector Alan Banks series. Robinson's hero is just a guy that you'd love to know, but one that you know is intense and one that won't let anyone or anything interfere in his search for justice. In this book, DCI Banks is more personally involved than usual. He is in the States for a soul-reviving holiday when the story begins, but before too long the crimes and the people involved are directly in Banks' orbit. When he comes home to England he finds out that his daughter has been taken, and his partner and one-time lover Annie Cabbot has been badly injured in the line of duty. That's enough to send the loose cannon who is Alan Banks on his own as he tries to save his daughter. One thing about Alan Banks books, they never proceed in the way that you think they will, and there is always an ending that sets things up for the next book in the series. I find that the hook that Robinson uses to accomplish this is very effective, because I'm always tempted to just move on to the next book right away. Normally, I prefer to let the series proceed at a slower pace because riding with Alan Banks is somewhat like being on a roller coaster. Having said that I can't wait to read number 20. I highly recommend this series for those who love to read police procedurals with human characters and very intense mysteries.
    • 4/5
      DCI Alan Banks of Eastvale CID is on holiday in America,He returns to find an old friend killed by the Police, his on off lover Annie in a coma and his daughter Tracy is on the run with an evil drug dealer.Banks quickly gets involved nearly gets shot but eventually saves the day with the help of an off duty Police sniper. Good easy to read book
    • 5/5
      This is book number 19 in the DCI Banks series. Only 4 more novels to go and I will be drumming my fingers awaiting the newest book. In spite of Peter Robinson being one of my favorite writers, I haven't breezed through his books, one after another.DCI Banks is to be savored, in my opinion, as the character ages and grows in his life and career. When I started this series his children were young and attending school. Now they are adults and their story lines intersect on occasion. While the majority of the story is focused on police investigation and mystery, a slice of his personal life is interjected here and there. Obviously I am a fan.This story opens up with an old friend and neighbor of Banks arriving at Eastvale Police Station to report the discovery of a firearm in her daughter Erin's bedroom. Alan Banks is on extended leave, vacationing in the American southwest so DI Annie Cabbot handles the situation. The woman isn't thrilled with Banks' absence but reluctantly gives the details to DI Cabbot.Owning or possessing a firearm in the UK isn't a common or simple affair as it is here in the US. It's illegal to have an unregistered firearm so the consequences are quite strict. First off I thought, does this woman know she is turning in her daughter and that she will most likely be sent to prison?! I can't conceive of doing that to my child. It's mentioned that the lady most likely didn't know the consequences and just wanted the gun out of her home.Turns out DCI Banks' daughter Tracy is a friend and roommate of Erin. They had a bit of a falling out over Erin's boyfriend and that is why Erin was home with her parents. Fast forward and Tracy is with the boyfriend, letting him know Erin may be arrested. This basically sets in motion a dumpster fire of a situation as the boyfriend is indeed, a bad boy. A very bad man in fact and Tracy realizes too late she is serious danger.There is murder, police investigations, a man hunt for a psychopath and danger for my favored vegetarian DI Annie Cabbot. What a story - I couldn't put this one down. To reveal more would be adding spoilers so I will stop here. Looking forward to more...only 4 books left {sob} and then I will be like an addict awaiting Mr. Robinson's latest!
    • 5/5
      A long gap between this book and the last book in the series for me but felt good to be back with Banks and Annie, although Banks doesn't put in much of an appearance for the first 100 pages or so. Another good book in the series and left at quite a pivotal point at the end of the book. Quite different to some other bokks in the series, but Peter Robunson is keeping up with the personal theme of some of the recent books in the series. 4.5 stars, and I look forward to getting to the next book.
    • 3/5
      Summary:

      Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most challenging, personal, and terrifying case yet when his own daughter crosses paths with a psychopath, in Peter Robinson’s superb Bad Boy. Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, calls the novels of Peter Robinson, “chilling, evocative, deeply nuanced works of art.” Stephen King calls them, “the best series now on the market.” If you have not yet discovered this New York Times bestselling crime fiction master and his exceptional detective, now is definitely the time.

      My Thoughts:

      I've been a fan of the Detective Banks series for a while but this is definitely one of the weaker books in this series. It is not at the level of any of his other books that I have read. The problems are an underwritten plot in which the villains are stock characters who behave predictably; Inspector Bank's absence until the second half of the book; Tracy's stupidity, which is hard to imagine of the adult child of a police officer; a pat and somewhat weak conclusion. In spite of that Peter Robinson has written a serviceable mystery, but the uninspired dialogue and conventional plot prevent Bad Boy from taking its place among the best of Inspector Banks sagas.
    • 4/5
      Inspector Banks's daughter runs away with a handsome criminal and shelters him in her father's home. On return from holiday Banks - and this tests credulity - is allowed to investigate his daughter's 'kidnapping'.
    • 5/5
      Slow start with Banks on holiday in America for long periods. Bucking up considerable in the middle and towards the climatic ending when Chief Inspector Banks daughter is abducted.Violent in the extreme.
    • 3/5
      "My daughter has a gun." Banks is on holiday, but that's the concern a woman brings to Annie, Banks's DI, while Banks is on vacation. Even though unlicensed handgun possession carries a very steep penalty, the police completely over-react (Banks is on vacation) and the girl's father gets hit with a tazer and dies of a heart attack. Cut to a scene with the daughter's friends and we learn things are not quite so simple. Soon, Banks' daughter is linked to Jaff, drugs, and attempted murder. Banks' former lover and DI Annie Cabbot investigates while Superintendent Chambers tries to paper over the fustercluck created by his armed response team. The scene shifts to Geoff and Tracy who are soon on the run from the cops and Banks arrives home from his vacation in San Francisco to find a perfect mess. I have to say that Tracy Banks has got to be one of the dumbest daughters to come down the pike. There were numerous opportunities for her to make a bad situation better, but she seemed to lack the gumption to react positively to her dilemma. The few times when she made a feeble attempt, she mishandled it badly. There are a couple of interesting new characters -- at least I believe they are new at this point in the series: Constable Nerys Powell, a member of the armed response team who has a crush on DI Cabott. Like Banks, she ignores regulations, in this case saving the day. I also liked DS Winsome Jackman, a statuesque, bright, and clever professional detective. The solution to the plot is intellectually unsatisfying. A decent story but not one of Robinson's better novels. Simon Prebble's very competent narration has trouble salvaging a weak story.
    • 4/5
      Another wonderful ride with Peter Robinson at the helm. Bad Boy puts Inspector Banks, already in a bit of a funk, into a case where his daughter is involved - willingly or not. As always, we are masterfully taken along, shown just enough at the right time, threatened more when we might be feeling comfortable.

      Inspector Banks is a bit distant this time - mentally and physically - and if I didn't already love him I might not form such an attachment with this book. But it's hard to be sure. The story had me in such a grip I was too busy wondering what would happen next.
    • 5/5
      Another excellent Inspector Banks story. This time most of the action takes place whilst he is on holiday in the USA. Tracey, his daughter, has become friends with a Leeds drug dealer and finds herself on the run with him, after a gun he had is stolen by his girlfriend in a pique of jealousy. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      While DCI Ian Banks is away on holiday in the US, an old neighbor comes to the station with a problem she hopes he can solve. DI Annie Cabbot has to take over and the case rapidly spirals out of control. Worse, Banks's daughter Tracy is involved. This is a bit more of a thriller than Robinson's usual, but very well done. Also highly recommended, as is the entire series. Although I knew that England's gun control was much stricter than ours, I didn't know the extent of it until I read this book.
    • 5/5
      I was pretty sparse in my praise of the last Inspector Banks book that I read, but in this, the 19th in the series, Peter Robinson is in great form. Unable to resist their charm all girls seem to eventually hook up with a Bad Boy and while Alan Banks is away on a much needed vacation, his daughter Tracy takes up with the handsome Jaff McCready, but, just how bad he is, she is about to find out.This book is a page turner as first DI Annie Cabot and then a jet-lagged Alan Banks race to save Tracy from the jam she is in, meanwhile some very nasty creatures are tracking Tracy and her bad boy trying to retrieve some property that belongs to their boss, a powerful crime lord that Banks has met before.This book is a roller coaster ride full of excitement and suspense. Peter Robinson has written a tight, taunt thriller that is hard to put down. I am in awe of this writer, who has 19 books from this one series under his belt and still managing to keep the action fresh and meaningful. Needless to say, I loved Bad Boy and I am looking forward to number twenty in this series.
    • 4/5
      It's always good to read a volume in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series. The author, over many works has created a repertoire of three-dimensional characters, led by the Inspector, who is one of the more phlegmatic and sane characters. He is a baby boomer, raised on rock 'n' roll, and his love of music distinguished him, in addition to his predilection to self-analysis. But this is one the series' more mediocre works. The emphasis is on the villain and the Inspector's daughter, and they don't have enough gravitas to carry the book. It's enjoyable, but it doesn't come close to the best titles in the Banks oeuvre.
    • 5/5
      I've followed the Alan Banks series for a number of years and so have a nodding acquaintance with the background to this story. I think however you could probably read BAD BOY as a stand alone because the author does give the reader snippets to fill in the holes.As a character Banks doesn't come out of BAD BOY particularly well. True, he's had a tough life, but the fact that he's been a neglectful father rebounds on him when his daughter Tracy at the age of twenty four decides to choose her own path. As second in command of the Western Area, Banks is used to everyone working for his good and over the years that has made him rather self-centred, and to my mind, rather pre-occupied with his own well-being. Mind you, he is surrounded by some female characters, terrifically drawn, such as Annie Cabbott and Winsome Jackman , and even his boss DS Catherine Gervaise, who seem to always anticipate his needs. As a result Alan Banks tends to choose his own path rather than follow protocols.If you enjoy British police procedurals then you will enjoy BAD BOY despite the fact that Peter Robinson is a Canadian author. (I chose to read this for the Canadian Book Challenge run by John Mutford). Robinson is yet another of those non-British authors who have set their novels in Britain, like Elizabeth George and Deborah Crombie.BAD BOY isn't the best in the Alan Banks series but don't let that put you off.
    • 1/5
      Bad Boy, nineteenth in the Inspector Banks series is the first I’ve read. Overall, I found the book tedious. The character lacked depth and the plot was uninteresting. I won’t be keeping it.
    • 4/5
      i liked this one. is banks going to quit the police? will he and annie become private dicks? his house is wrecked again. can he live there after what happened to his daughter? tracy is not very likeable but she's in way over her head so i can sympathize with her. she's going to have a lot of bad dreams!
    • 4/5
      I am always thrilled with a new Peter Robinson - this one was everything I've grown to expect.
    • 4/5
      The trouble starts when a mother comes to the police to report that her daughter has an unloaded gun on top of the wardrobe. If this happened in America, the police would reply: Tell her to unload it and put it away. And then go do her homework.
    • 3/5
      This was written for Library Thing Early Reviewers.I thought this was a fine suspense novel. It was the first I'd read in this British series starring the sensitive, slightly brooding and rather hip Inspector Banks. The spotlight in this story was on his partner, his daughter and assorted baddies. I usually like to read series in order but jumped in with this one first as I so much appreciated receiving an early review copy. So I was attuned to the way the author deftly brought me up to date as necessary weaving in bits of background unobtrusively. I do so hate feeling like I'm the "new girl in class" but that was not the case with this novel. I'm giving this one 3 stars.