She is involved in a great twists towards the end which is a must watch. Laura Linney (The Truman Show) is terrific as Eastwood's daughter and adds a great sentimental value to a heavy crime film. The story justifies the genre by being focused upon murders and robberies and adds sentimental value in the form of family and friendship values.

Tense, exciting and with a few twists it presents a realistic view of a robber caught up in what will surely be a huge case. However the film is always tense and engaging, especially the beginning which was definitely one of my all time favourite openings to a crime film. Perhaps the story gets too involved at points with a lack of realism. A consistent plot involving many different types of characters in the form of organised professional robber Whitney (Marvellously portrayed by Eastwood) who is involved in a huge conspiracy involving the very uncomfortable president Hackman. and where the powerful people responsible for his client’s disappearance will kill without a moment’s hesitation if they catch Archer on their trail.The Narrative.

With the help of Callahan and his partner Willie Dash, he launches an investigation that will take him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles-a city in which beautiful faces are attached to cutthroat schemers, where the cops can be more corrupt than the criminals. Missing client or not, Archer is dead set on finding both the murderer and Eleanor. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying, but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home. It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits.Īfter a series of increasingly chilling events-mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink-Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case in this latest thriller in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s Nero Award-winning series.

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