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Max Holman served ten years for bank robbery. Finally ready to become a free man, he is to leave the halfway house where he has spent the past six months with a job and a place to live. He is ready to go straight and be an honest citizen. Just before he is due to leave, though, the social worker at the house reluctantly gives Max some terrible news. Richard, Max's son, was a police officer. Richie's mom wrote to Max only a couple of times but in her last letter she told him Richie had joined the LAPD and he was proof that 'like father, like son' was a lie. Now Max learns that Richard and three other police officers were gunned down the night before. Determined to find out what happened, Max goes to Richard's commander; he is told they have a suspect and hope to capture him soon. Max is skeptical that one man could get the drop on four cops. When the suspect is found shot, supposedly the victim of suicide, Max is not convinced. But, who can he turn to? Well, the person he immediately thinks of is Katherine Pollard, the FBI agent who caught him at his last bank robbery. The truth is Max was not hard to catch. He could have gotten away, but he stopped to help one of the customers at the bank who had a heart attack. Katherine spoke on his behalf to the judge and asked for leniency. Katherine, now widowed with two sons, is no longer an agent. She is also unhappy. At first she thinks Max is scamming her, but she becomes interested in the case and in the discrepancies she is seeing. When she asks an old friend at the FBI to help her, the friend is reprimanded by her boss and told she could lose her job. Both Max and Katherine believe there is a police cover-up and are determined to find out why. The author has temporarily abandoned his series with Elvis Cole, the LA private eye. This stand alone novel is surely one of his best works. THE TWO MINUTE RULE is a suspenseful thriller from the first page, and the reader is sucked into the whirlwind along with Max. The many unanswered questions, unlikely explanations, and threats of arrest and censure, drive Max even harder in his quest to find out why his son died. Katherine reluctantly admits she has some feelings for Max, but she is also out to see that justice is done. Max continues to believe that Richie was a good man and is willing to go back to jail to prove it.
Reviewed by Lorraine Gelly, March 2006
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