The Blue Edge of Midnight
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Interesting premise, mystery a bit thin
  • Interesting...
  • Good book, didn't like the reader in the audio edition
  • Backwater murder mystery
  • Good ex-cop mystery from Florida's Everglades
The Blue Edge of Midnight
Jonathon King
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
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ASIN: 0525946438
Release Date: 2002-03-28

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Penzler Pick, March 2002: This is the first entry in what I hope will be a series by journalist Jonathon King, who has written for the Philadelphia Daily News and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The story features Max Freeman, who was a cop in Philadelphia until he shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was helping to rob a convenience store. Max was shot in the neck himself and now he keeps away from most people, living in a cabin in the backwaters of South Florida.

While canoeing on the river near his home, Max spies a bundle floating near the shore which turns out to be a dead child wrapped in a sheet. Max's first reaction is that the nightmare he thought he left behind has caught up with him. Pulling the bundle into his canoe, Max paddles downstream to the ranger station where he is met by the head ranger together with three detectives--almost as if they were waiting for him.

Billy Manchester, a lawyer and friend to Max, tells him that the body of the girl he found is the third in a series of abductions that is terrifying South Florida communities. Because of his training as a cop, Max wants to help out with the investigation, but his offer of help is rebuffed by local law enforcement. He discovers that the killer is leaving global positioning system addresses with the bodies, which is why there was a team of detectives at the ranger station--they were on their way up-river to where they knew a body would be when Max brought it in.

Max himself is now a suspect and, when he returns to his cabin to discover that a GPS unit has been planted, he knows he is going to get involved anyway. If he doesn't find the murderer, the police are going to charge him. His search takes him deep into the Everglades, off the beaten track into communities closed to outsiders and hostile to questions.

King gives a vivid portrayal of a Florida still not exploited by developers and also treats us to a wonderful cast of characters--Max and Billy especially, but also to some folks who have hardly been touched by the modern world. --Otto Penzler

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Featuring ex-cop Max Freeman, The Blue Edge of Midnight marks the debut of a powerful new crime series.

"The Blue Edge of Midnight is a terrific book that begins the run of a great new talent in Jonathon King. From start to finish it is full of true character and jagged surprises. King adds new dimensions of depth and substance to the modern crime novel." (Michael Connelly)

Max Freeman's old life ended on a night that will haunt him forever. The night he killed a twelve-year-old child in self-defense in a Philadelphia shootout. The night he stopped being a cop. Now he lives an existence of solitary confinement on the edge of the Florida Everglades, where he answers to no one but the demons that eat away at his conscience.

Until the night he finds the corpse of a child beside an ancient river. The night Max Freeman's past explodes into the present.

Suddenly, Freeman is thrust into the center of the search for a killer responsible for a string of grisly slayings that is baffling both local authorities and the F.B.I. Distrusted as an outsider by the longtime residents of the Glades and pulled into the case as suspect by the police, Freeman must walk a tenuous tightrope of distrust on both sides of the law. When another child goes missing, all eyes turn to Freeman-and the ex-cop, driven by his old habits and the memories of that long-ago Philadelphia midnight, knows that he has no choice but to hunt down the seemingly unstoppable murderer himself.

An electrifying story of crime, punishment, and one man's personal redemption played out against a backdrop of wild natural beauty in conflict with the modern urban world, The Blue Edge of Midnight heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in contemporary crime fiction.

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"National Bestselling Author of the Edgar Award winner for Best First Novel The Blue Edge of Midnight. Tormented by the demons of his past, ex-cop Max Freeman rarely ventures beyond his secluded shack deep in the Florida Everglades. But he can't ignore the recent string of suspicious deaths of elderly, poor women that the police have been unable, or unwilling, to investigate. When his best friend urges him to get involved and act like the cop he's trying to forget he was, Max must confront the dangers of the city streets-and the unexpected shadows of his own past."

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Interesting premise, mystery a bit thin.......2006-12-01

This is one of those books that, when you look at it, is clearly the start of a good series. Jonathon King can write, quite well thank you very much, and he has interesting characters to people his story. The main character (and also narrator) is an ex-cop who left the job after semi-accidentally shooting a youngster who was robbing a jewelry store. His name is Max Freeman, and he's exiled himself in the Florida swamps, living in an isolated house in the middle of nowhere. And it's there he finds a dead girl, and of course gets entangled in the search for a serial killer who's been murdering children in the area, and leaving the bodies in the swamp.

King's plot isn't that complex. I expect to an extent that's a function of starting the series: there's a lot of backgrounding here, building character of the main character and his only real sidekick, a stuttering attorney with a penthouse apartment and an apparently lucrative practice. By the time the mystery heats up a bit, you've got a good idea who the killer is. You don't really care, though: this is one of those books where the mystery is very secondary to the atmosphere and characters.

I really enjoyed this book a great deal, and I'd recommend it to almost anyone.

2 out of 5 stars Interesting..........2006-10-05

but not involving. The plot was a good one and the characters showed promise...but no more than promise. The main character's introspection did not convince, and his lawyer/friend--by far the more interesting of the two--never quite came alive. I'll read another one, but only if it gets rave reviews first. I just hate being disappointed.

4 out of 5 stars Good book, didn't like the reader in the audio edition.......2006-06-09

I checked out the audio book version from the local library and found it to be exactly what I want in light entertainment; a reasonably interesting mystery novel with believable characters, realistic plot, etc. But I had a lot of difficulty with the reader. The voice, enunciation, and style reminded me way too much of Fred Rogers (Mr Rogers Neighborhood), not a voice one would associate with a murder mystery. Each word is pronounced very carefully and succinctly like the reader is targeting a 6 year old audience. Just did not sound right in this context.

It took some concentration but, most of the time, I was able to go beyond the reader and focus on the story. Overall recommended.

4 out of 5 stars Backwater murder mystery.......2006-04-27

Jonathon King's protagonist ex-Philadelphia cop Max Freeman is living a reclusive life in a secluded research shack in the Florida Everglades. One of his few outside contacts is long time friend and high powered South Florida based attorney Billy Manchester. Manchester arranged Freeman's purchase of the isolated residence after he opted for retirement from the police force following a serious gunshot wound in the neck.

Freeman's lair, accessible only by water, required that he negotiate his way through the cypress swamps by canoe. As he was paddling he startlingly came across the floating corpse of a young child. Not wishing to disturb the crime scene, he reported the gruesome discovery to the local rangers. Within short order the FBI arrived on the scene as this was the fourth in a series of recent child adbductions that resulted in murder.

Freeman was immediately suspected of the crime by lead FBI investigator Mark Hammonds due to his proximity to the body and his extensive knowledge of the surrounding environs. Wishing to clear his name, he strove to help with the investigation against the advice of his attorney Manchester.

Manchester arranged for a meeting with a previous client Fred Gunther, a pilot that worked as a guide to the Everglades. Gunther was to fly him over the locations where the bodies of the young murder victims had been found. A sabotaged plane engine resulted in a crash in which Freeman had to drag the severely injured Gunther through the mosquito infested swampy sawgrass to safety.

Freeman's heroics gained him an entree with a group of what was known as Gladesmen. This group of men lived their lives deep within the confines of the Everglades with disdain and beyond the reach of the law. The group led by a leathery skinned aged war hero Nate Brown seemed to hold the answers to the murder mystery. Their tight lipped nature forced Freeman to dig deeper in his investigation to learn the truth behind the rash of murders.

King's taut investigative thriller easily captures your interest as the characters amble through this unforgiving environment.

3 out of 5 stars Good ex-cop mystery from Florida's Everglades.......2006-02-28

Max Freeman, an ex-cop from Philadelphia, lives in the Florida Everglades in an old research shack. His reason for being a recluse is that he shot a young kid in self-defense on the streets of Philadelphia ,and he can't seem to get it out of his head. His neck wound is a constant reminder of that day. Paddling down the river in his canoe, Max spots the fourth kid to turn up dead in a series of killings. The police suspect him at first, and the killer seems to have it in for Max as well. The book is carefully plotted mystery, and I enjoyed his flashbacks to his days on the force in Philadelphia. These stories help built his character, but we really don't get much of his personality. He's just an average Joe caught in the middle of things. A solid mystery.
Blue Octavo Notebooks
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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  • Haven't read it yet -- just bought it --
  • *********** THE NOTEBOOK ****************
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Blue Octavo Notebooks
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ASIN: 1878972049
Release Date: 2004-01-02

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Description: "Followers of Kafka will require this book and will find it most rewarding." --Library Journal From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka stopped writing entries in his diary, which he kept in quarto-sized notebooks, but continued to write in a series of smaller, octavo-sized notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, published the diaries in 1948, he omitted these notebooks--which include short stories, fragments of stories, and other literary writings--because, "Notations of a diary nature, dates, are found in them only as a rare exception." The Blue Octavo Notebooks have thus remained little known yet are among the most characteristic of Kafka's work. In addition to otherwise unpublished material, the notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms in their original context. This edition of the English translation has been corrected with reference to the German text for certain omissions and discrepancies of sequence.

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5 out of 5 stars greatest format for the greatest writing by the greatest writer of the 20th century.......2007-09-17

To face the prospect of religion without religion.
To face the prospect of death head on.
To be truly fearless in the face of human terror, folly, and weakness.

To scribble all this courage into a modest little notebook, without the need for fame or immortality, without the pretense of literature or art.

Just a great man working through the miracle of his life.
It takes courage just to read it.

5 out of 5 stars Haven't read it yet -- just bought it --.......2006-11-09

But read the reviews, it is true, the gentleman from Ontario is priceless, and I agree with Erica as well. I've read the two-volume edition of his diaries and they seem to be much more touching and emotional -- sensitive to beauty -- than most of his published work. Though I would say the published work is also funny, "Investigations of a dog," for example. I think the diaries give a good, new angle on the published work. And I don't think they were "written for publication."

5 out of 5 stars *********** THE NOTEBOOK ****************.......2006-02-19

Like the notebooks of Nietzsche, Camus, Andre Gide, and Wittgenstein...
this book of discovered notebooks is a sharp and wonderfully illuminating glimpse into the deep-thinking mind of a master of his literary craft. A Great Read!

4 out of 5 stars Kafka thinking out loud.......2005-05-28

First off, to the reviewer here from Ontario: I laughed until I started to hiccup while reading your review, and since I'm a substitute librarian, well...you can imagine. You've caught his tone exactly.

Now, the Octavos. If you're a Kafka obsessive, they're required reading---first, to tease out his private code (the aphorisms). Secondly, one finds many of the shorter pieces Brod lifted for other releases, and what Brod chose---and what he left---says a lot about how his friend interpreted this author, and how FK would be misinterpreted for the next fifty years.

Another reason to read Octavos is this: at least two of the shorter pieces here are so funny you'll want to collar friends and force them to listen. "I am a clerk at the town hall!" boasts one of his personae repeatedly...before collapsing into snarls about dignity and the office cat. Another is a wry send-up on the self-important manifestos floating around Europe at the time: Kafka's version is released anonymously to an indifferent apartment population, and proposes an absurdist Social-Contract arrangement between the manifesto writer, the thronging public, and five broken toy rifles--all sonorously written in starving-revolutionary comeradese. Of course, to the manifesto writer's chagrin, no one shows up.

The Octavo Notebooks are where Kafka recorded a few of his most delicate, poetic and aching shorter pieces. They're also where he goofed up, wrote himself into a corner, admonished himself, lied to himself. In short, they're a small window into this complicated writer's heart. Nothing here is so essential that you can't enjoy Kafka's more formal work without them, but if you're a fan, they humanize the man immeasurably.

5 out of 5 stars The Gentleman fom Ontario.......2005-01-14

When I first bought this book, it wasn't blue either. But when I brought it home and put it on my shelf, things changed irrevocably. Now when I am sitting and writing late in the evening, out of the corner of my eye I can see the book, sitting amongst its faithless companions, gleaming blue like a blue lamp from a lighthouse, shining out from its shelf. While all around the rustling of the mice. But then, when I turn and look straight at her, she isn't blue anymore.

I find the thought almost unbearable.
The blue jay
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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The blue jay
Max Brand
Manufacturer: G.K. Hall
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5 out of 5 stars Grade "A" Entertainment.......2003-01-06

Author, Max Brand, uses the main character, Kitchin, to "tell Kitchin's life's story" -- and what a story he unwinds. Well developed characterization. Interesting and surprising twist to Kitchin's story. The novel is more about human nature, than a true western. Recommended read for any gender and age.

4 out of 5 stars Solomon50.......1999-12-10

I find this western to be excellent. Very descriptive and enjoyable. It has been several years since I last read this book. I believe it to be one of Brands best works. I would like to add it to my library.
The Bright Blue Sky
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The Bright Blue Sky
Max Hennessy
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5 out of 5 stars This book was great!.......1999-11-03

This book is probably the greatest war book ever written. I loved it. It was an Air Force book loaded with action. I seriously recomend it.
Big Blue Engine
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Big Blue Engine
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Big Blue Engine picks up where the Thomas the Tank Engine series leaves off. No smiley-faced cartoon adventurers here, just hard-working, carefully detailed train engines. The brightly colored blue engine backs up to the freight car, hooks on, and is off to the seaport. Interactive tabs and flaps allow young readers to slide the train over the bridge ("Chug-chug! Puff-puff! Whoosh!"), pull it out of the tunnel, help the crane unload the freight onto a huge ship, and return the train to the station for a well-deserved rest--just as the green engine and red engine are setting out for their workday!

This small board book--along with Ken Wilson-Max's three other interactive books, Little Red Plane, Little Green Tow Truck, and Big Silver Space Shuttle--is designed for the very young reader. Although the tabs may be a little difficult for smaller fingers, toddlers are sure to love the subject matter and the opportunity to push and pull heavy machinery to their hearts' content. (Baby to Preschool) --Emilie Coulter

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All aboard the Big Blue Engine for the ride of your life! Interactive parts allow children to start up the engine, hook up the freight car, ride over bridges and through tunnels, unload frieght, and return to the station after a long day.

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2 out of 5 stars Doesn't hold up.......2000-07-12

My two year old loves the book, but the moving parts did not hold up at all.

5 out of 5 stars Great!.......1999-12-10

My sons (ages 3 & 7) love this book. They read/play with it so much, they wore it out. The moving parts on each page really keep their interest. It's lots of fun.
The Blue Max (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
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Bruno Stachel is a nobody, a newly recruited junior officer in a First World War German combat squadron. But he is determined not to remain a nobody for long. He has his sights on the Blue Max - the most coveted of all German decorations - and he will do anything to get it. From the very moment he shoots down his first plane, everything he does is aimed in that direction: bedding his commander's wife, courting publicity at every turn, even arranging the deaths of his competitors... Jack D. Hunter's novel is a brilliant study of a pilot tortured by his naked ambition. A classic of war literature, it was also made into a Hollywood movie, starring George Peppard, James Mason and Ursula Andress.

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1 out of 5 stars A lot worse than I expected.......2006-09-28


I don't understand all the high ratings. I really liked the movie, knew that this book would be different, and somehow hoped that with all these great reviews that this book would be worth reading. NOT...........

The movie is way better than the book. The book is just filled with banal conversation, utterly meaningless filler material really. Whenever I saw the pages blur with quotation marks, I started speed reading and skimming. At the end, I didn't miss anything at all in the plot.

And all that business about Stachel's heavy drinking, especially drinking while flying. Yes, it's true that in both World Wars there were plenty of aviators who were alcoholics and did heavy drinking and carousing while off duty (Pappy Boyington comes to mind). But FLYING A PLANE IN COMBAT while drunk? You've got to be kidding. Pilots flying combat while drunk (and there probably were such pilots) simply didn't live very long, much less get 30 victories.

Yes, the biggest problem with this book is that besides the mind numbing banal conversational filler, it gives a grossly inaccurate portrait of what drinking does to human beings. There's a reason that we have such severe drunk driving laws today and why drinking while flying for a modern day pilot means instant grounding - alcohol causes such a significant loss in a human being's reaction time and coordination and judgement that it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to accurately control a heavy piece of machinery moving at high speed. This is true even for chronic alcoholics who believe that they can "hold their liquor".

Dogfighting? Formation flying? Not getting disoriented inside a dense cloud? Seeing clearly and not hitting something while landing? Doing this DRUNK? You've GOT TO BE KIDDING.

The movie wisely hacked out the excess converstion and the unreal fixation on Stachel's alcoholism. It also magnificently straightened out the severe plot contortions at the end of this book, choosing instead to just simply and cleanly tie up all the loose ends by killing off the most deserving culprit.

4 out of 5 stars Rare Instance Where Film Trumps Literature.......2006-01-27

Those critics who dismiss the John Guillermin film as "banal" are perhaps more appreciative of Lifetime Channel flicks that concentrate on the hackneyed drama trauma of the week. The Blue Max movie is still the touchstone for brilliant aerial photography and Ursula Andress's sublime beauty exceeds any expectations Hunter could conjure up in the reader's imagination.

The fact that Hunter's depiction of Stachel as one who drinks to excess is absent and irrelevant in Peppard's film antihero is indeed refreshing. The Stachel/Kaeti love/hate relationship in the film is compelling without such (by 1966) tired contrivances. Never mind that during the time of the Great War, alcoholism wasn't even a named disease along with 12 step programs, but rather the least of the problems that plagued WWI aviators.








4 out of 5 stars A lot better than I expected.......2005-06-20

Bruno Stachel has a problem, knows what it is, but doesn't know how to fix it. He's an alcoholic, and like many of them can be a decent man when sober but demonic when drunk. He hopes that winning the Blue Max as a German WWI ace will help fill his void, but it does no good at all. In the meantime he finds he enjoys killing -- he murders helpless pilots, both enemy and friend. The fight scenes in the air are superb, but beyond that, it's about an ambitious, ruthless, tortured man whose conscience alternately oppresses and deserts him. Surprisingly well-written novel, much more literature than pulp-action.

5 out of 5 stars One of the Aviation classics of the Great War.......2004-04-09

Jack D. Hunter produced what may be the finest novel of the genre. The study of Bruno Stachel is superb, and the subtext of his struggle with alcoholism permits the reader to examine a deplorable but eventually sympathetic character.

The aerial sequences are beautifully written and the author's easy familiarity with aircraft types of the period is evident.

The motion picture is a shallow, banal version of this work and the two stories are almost unrelated. She the movie if you must, but read the book regardless

4 out of 5 stars My Favorite World War I Novel..........2003-07-23

I've read this book many times. Unlike other WWI Novels, this one has aged well. The movie that was based on this is altogether a different creature, yet both are enjoyable. Stachel realizes his shortcomings in the film, yet is carried away by all the glory that is swept over him. In the novel, Stachel is a full time passenger on the low self esteem bandwagon and his winning the Blue Max seems not to change him a wit. Only near the end does he seem to glimpse hope, yet all runs afoul due to his own selfishness.

The aerial action scenes are good (though I had a problem with one scene where Stachel and Von Klugermann are jumped by five SPADS, Stachel is flying a Pfalz {a sluggish aircraft at best}, and Von Klugermann, an Albatros, but during the melee, they shoot down three, yet they seem to suffer nary a scratch which I'm sorry seems unlikely, one of them would have been brought down or at the very least, shot up), and there's plenty of them. Sometimes I get the feeling that Mr. Hunter held the RAF in low esteem, but that's just me being analytical. His characterizations are first rate, and the novel moves along briskly. His observations into alcoholism are fantastic. His description of Stachel's need for alcohol and the release he believes that it gives is harrowing.

A good read.
Deep Is The Blue
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    Deep Is The Blue
    Max Ehrlich
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      Jaws Maui
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • ~"He's doing this for entirely different reasons"
      • Jaws
      • Jaws > Mother Nature's Wave Pool
      • A Must-Read, not just a Must-See.
      • What Incredible photography!!!!!!!
      Jaws Maui
      Charlie Lyon
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      Jaws Maui is much more than bonzai surfers defying gravity on moving walls of blue. It is the photography of Blue Max, whose colorful, full-paged shots juxtapose landscape and seascape, faunal quietude vs. rolling thunder. And it is the words of the wave riders themselves, waxing their boards poetic about the beauty of the island, surfculture, and the spirit that relentlessly calls them to the water. This stirring salute to a place called Jaws on the island of Maui is a must for anyone ever wowed by the waves.--D.G. McDonald

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      5 out of 5 stars ~"He's doing this for entirely different reasons".......2007-02-24

      I'm naming one of my children Laird; what a stud, eah? A friend had this large surfer pictorial coffee table book back in 97, and 10 years later it's still the best book I've ever seen on the subject. It has some of the finest photographs ever taken of large wave surfing (the cover is not just a one-off) and some of the preeminent accompanying text that ever existed about surfing (heartfelt philo; but intelligent, not loadie). Other than Surfer magazine, I believe this book was the first to show the new era of tow-in surfing, and the story of the heroes who created it. It's complete - and the first edition is no doubt a collectors piece for surfers. To my mind the movie Riding Giants should have clearly stated "inspired by the book Jaws Maui", because it's essentially the same thing in a different medium (and also highly recommended).

      There is this marvelous line in the book - one of the hardcore crew basically answering the question about why Laird is so much better than anyone else. His answer was stellar; something along the lines of ~yeah - he's insane - "he's doing this for entirely different reasons". Absolutely classic. Absolutely frickin' classic. I'm just now getting the book (or I'd give you the exact quote) but what a glorious and magnificent line. I was devastated when it didn't make it into the movie Riding Giants.

      4 out of 5 stars Jaws.......2001-05-18

      I think this was one of the best thriller stories of its time. I personnally think it also is one the best water thrillers ever. I think any who is scared of the water should read this book.

      5 out of 5 stars Jaws > Mother Nature's Wave Pool.......1999-12-23

      If anyone out there either surfs or enjoy's Surfing as a way of life, this book is for you! Go out there and purchase this book! Jaws is more than a book, the colourful pages come alive in front of you, looking at Laird Hamilton coming down the faces of massive 50+foot surf, it's like your right there below him (holding the camera) Blue Max did an amazing job of illustrating these waves for us, I was lucky enough to have visited Maui, for others out there, what are you waiting for..? Killer Waves..Best Surfers in the world.. see it all..? or save your money and buy this book

      aloha Jim Mellanis :-)

      5 out of 5 stars A Must-Read, not just a Must-See........1999-05-13

      Jaw Maui has much more to offer than your average coffee-table book. It is an incredible blending of inspirational writing and insightful interviews with the watermen themselves. Charlie & Leslie Lyon have done a great job letting us in on the inner workings of these accomplished athletes. Everyone that visits us gets a chance to read Jaws, and has come away mightily impressed (and longing for a trip to Maui!).

      5 out of 5 stars What Incredible photography!!!!!!!.......1999-05-02

      This book is amazing.......It starts out focusing on surfers......then windsurfers.........then mixes in great aerial shots of all over Maui.

      For windsurfers (like myself) it's great to see good shots of the world's best......on both windsurfers and on surfboards. Robby, Kalama, Bjorn, Sierra, Alex etc......on both types of boards.

      And like I said .....the scenic shots of Maui are great too......

      Check it out..........

      This is a truly incredible book........It'll really get your adreneline pumping!!!!!!!!

      Hang Loose!!!!!!!
      NYPD Blue: Blue Blood: NYPD Blue (NYPD Blues)
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      NYPD Blue: Blue Blood: NYPD Blue (NYPD Blues)
      Max Allan Collins
      Manufacturer: Signet
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      Binding: Paperback

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      5 out of 5 stars NYPD Blue rules.......2003-05-25

      An Awesome book its just like watching the show. It felt good to see Bobby back in action after he died. It's hard and raw its gritty. The book has a few plot twists its a great read.

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