Miker,
Re your comment on the film version of TO LIVE AND DIE IN
L.A. below:
> Based on a novel by a
> fellow named Petievich. I've never seen the book
or
> heard of the author.
Back in 2002, during a month devoted to police procedurals, I
was asked to give a list of my favorite cop story writers.
This was what I wrote:
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/200209/0361.html
The first response to my list was this:
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/200209/0363.html
"Never heard of the author?" How soon they forget.
For the record, I believe Petievich's series cop, Secret
Service Agent Charles Carr, made Rara-Avis's list of the top
100 hard-boiled characters.
Petievich comes from a law enforcement family. His dad and
brother were both LAPD officers. His brother, Detective John
Petievich, had a small role as a Secret Service Agent in TO
LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. and also played a small part as a
homicide detective in COP, based on James Ellroy's BLOOD ON
THE MOON.
Four of Petievich's first five novels feature Charles Carr,
an LA-based Secret Service agent. The Carr novels are MONEY
MEN, ONE-SHOT DEAL, TO DIE IN BEVERLY HILLS, and THE QUALITY
OF THE INFORMANT.
The third novel, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A., was not part of the
series, but has several character in common with the Carr
novels. Structurally, it's very different from the movie,
telling the story of two different Secret Service men, both
trying to get the same counterfeiter. One's doing it by the
book (more or less), the other is doing any crooked thing he
has to to make the case. The ending is also very different
from the movie.
Since that first five, Petievich has concentrated on
stand-alone cop novels and movie or TV scripts.
Some of his stand-alones include EARTH ANGELS, based on the
activities of LAPD's anti-gang C.R.A.S.H. unit
(where his brother John was assigned for awhile); PARAMOUR,
about a Secret Service agent assigned to the White House
protective detail who gets a top secret assignement involving
the President's supposed mistress; SHAKEDOWN, about an FBI
agent assigned to a multi-agency Organized Crime Task Force
(Petievich was the Secret Service rep on such a Task Force
before he retired) out to nail Vegas's top Mob figure; and,
most recently, THE SENTINAL, in which a White House Detail
agent gets involved in an affair with the President's wife. A
film version starring Kiefer Sutherland is currently being
filmed.
More info can be found at Petievich's website here:
JIM DOHERTY
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