Hot Shots

by Laurence Gough

Book Overview

The third in Gough's Vancouver police series featuring detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker. Willows and Parker investigate a possible homicide - there is evidence of a gunfight, but no apparent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670830143
• ISBN13: 9780670830145
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 192 Pages

Customer Reviews

A must read...

This third book in the series was awarded the Arthur Ellis award for best novel in 1990. It's no wonder why! Gough has written a fast-paced, exciting, witty and compelling novel. I read it in one sitting and it left me wanting more.

good cd

great trooper cd i know the lead singers son connor he is a cool guy and i met the lead singer for trooper they live in vancouver bc

A Canadian Rock Legend!

"Hot Shots" is a delightful collection featuring 12 of Trooper's best known Canadian radio classics. Produced by Randy Bachman (The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive), for the most part, two of the selections here feature a bit of a BTO hook: the sassy "General Hand Grenade" and "Ready", both fine, outstanding rockers to boot, as are nearly all of the tracks on "Hot Shots". Trooper also bares its soulful side a la Pablo Cruise in "Round Round We Go". "Moment That It Takes" also displays a softer side. Neither of these two tracks fit in the general musical mold of the Trooper sound, which is earth shaking, in your face, Canadian rock 'n roll at its ultra-rocking best! Although the above-mentioned tracks are well worth the price of this disc, the real reason for making "Hot Shots" an essential purchase, is due to these outstanding CanCon classics: "Two For The Show", "Santa Maria", "We're Here For A Good Time (Not A Long Time)" and perhaps Trooper's best known rock anthem "Raise A Little Hell". These hits are all yours at an import level price, although it is worth the money. This is truly the ultimate party "crank up the volume and bug your landlord (or landlady)" CD. Buy "Hot Shots", before the party's gone - for good!

Old Time Rock n Roll!

Hot Shots! is a compilation of some of the best old fashioned and to-the-point rock music ever to come out of Canada. Like Bryan Adams and Loverboy, Trooper music didn't add anything new to the music industry but that was not the idea. With songs like We're Here for a good time and Raise a little hell, Trooper have demonstrated that rock music should be about fun and this album very much epitomizes that old time rock n roll sound. No pretentiousness, no BS, just good music. Highly recommended. Other Trooper albums worth listening to are: Flying Colours & The Last of the Gypsies.

You can't be Canadian and not have at least one copy!

This is the best "Greatest Hits" album, bar none! It doesn't matter if you're 50 years old or 5 years old, these songs are excellent. You can actually hear the guys having a ball singing them. This is a must for cruising and summer parties!