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* BadassGay: The second novel reveals that Max is gay and has an on-and-off relationship with a former Australian spy named Chaz.
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** In the second novel, they're in LA, so they can't use the team van. Instead, they contract out remote-driving vans from a company called [=TurkMO=]. Rutherford is initially reluctant to entrust control of the vehicle to someone doing it in the office or (more likely) in their bedroom using the car's sensors and cameras, but he eventually relents. Furthermore, it seems that [=TurkMO=] employs a number of former stunt drivers in hopes of the LAPD using their services for car chases.
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* CowboyCop: Rutherford finds out he's been hired to play this role on the team. He isn't particularly happy about that, since his personality hardly fits the type. During his first outing as member of the team, he breaks character five minutes in by striking up a friendly conversation with a woman about interior decorating. He has to wear a "costume", consisting of ill-fitting old jeans (deliberately made to look that way), a rocker t-shirt, an old leather jacket (hiding a HandCannon), and a cigar (since he doesn't smoke, he's given an e-cigar that looks like the real thing and blows water vapor). His job is to be the most visible member of the team by chasing down suspects, preferably wherever there are people with cell phones and cameras. Capp's marketing team then does their best to make sure that the videos of the event go viral. The marketing team also spends most of the novel trying to come up with an appropriate nickname for Rutherford, much to his chagrin. Capp finally introduces him as "Cement Shoes" Rutherford.
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** Rutherford finds out he's been hired to play this role on the team. He isn't particularly happy about that, since his personality hardly fits the type. During his first outing as member of the team, he breaks character five minutes in by striking up a friendly conversation with a woman about interior decorating. He has to wear a "costume", consisting of ill-fitting old jeans (deliberately made to look that way), a rocker t-shirt, an old leather jacket (hiding a HandCannon), and a cigar (since he doesn't smoke, he's given an e-cigar that looks like the real thing and blows water vapor). His job is to be the most visible member of the team by chasing down suspects, preferably wherever there are people with cell phones and cameras. Capp's marketing team then does their best to make sure that the videos of the event go viral. The marketing team also spends most of the novel trying to come up with an appropriate nickname for Rutherford, much to his chagrin. Capp finally introduces him as "Cement Shoes"Rutherford.Rutherford.
** In the second book, Rutherford meets an ex-cop named Randy [=McCormick=] who works as a police advisor for a detective TV show. Rutherford decides to model his behavior on Randy and eventually learns that Randy was fired from the LAPD for refusing to play by the rules.
** Rutherford finds out he's been hired to play this role on the team. He isn't particularly happy about that, since his personality hardly fits the type. During his first outing as member of the team, he breaks character five minutes in by striking up a friendly conversation with a woman about interior decorating. He has to wear a "costume", consisting of ill-fitting old jeans (deliberately made to look that way), a rocker t-shirt, an old leather jacket (hiding a HandCannon), and a cigar (since he doesn't smoke, he's given an e-cigar that looks like the real thing and blows water vapor). His job is to be the most visible member of the team by chasing down suspects, preferably wherever there are people with cell phones and cameras. Capp's marketing team then does their best to make sure that the videos of the event go viral. The marketing team also spends most of the novel trying to come up with an appropriate nickname for Rutherford, much to his chagrin. Capp finally introduces him as "Cement Shoes"
** In the second book, Rutherford meets an ex-cop named Randy [=McCormick=] who works as a police advisor for a detective TV show. Rutherford decides to model his behavior on Randy and eventually learns that Randy was fired from the LAPD for refusing to play by the rules.
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** The first "Watson" killed in the second book was killed by a razor wire concealed in his watch that sliced his wrist open, while a hidden circuit prevented him from exiting his car to call for help. As a result, he bled out before help could come.
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* MissingMom: One of the "Watsons" seems to have based his entire career on the legacy of his late mother, a famous actress who died in an ambulance crash after a drug overdose. [[spoiler:Rutherford later learns that Randy's mom was a paramedic who died in the same crash. Randy resents that the actress's death was publicized, while his own mother was barely a footnote of the "also died" kind. He has decided to take revenge on the actor by having him killed while orchestrating events to make it look like the work of a Watson-hating SerialKiller.]]
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* ProfessionalKiller: In book 2, it quickly becomes clear that the supposed SerialKiller isn't doing the deed themselves but is hiring professionals to do the job instead.
** The first victim is killed by [[spoiler:the protégé of an old acquaintance of Max's]] with a rigged watch.
** The second victim is killed by [[spoiler:a professional who sneaks onto the lot and strangles him in the bathroom before slipping out]].
** The third victim is [[spoiler:assaulted by a guy dressed in Creator/BruceLee's yellow suit from ''Film/GameOfDeath'' with a homemade shuriken (which misses) and nunchucks (which give her a mild concussion) with a lot of IKnowMortalKombat]].
** The fourth victim is [[spoiler:unharmed as the sniper hired to do the deed proves to be incompetent and keeps dropping the parts of his custom-made sniper rifle and letting the window slip before being finally caught]].
** The first victim is killed by [[spoiler:the protégé of an old acquaintance of Max's]] with a rigged watch.
** The second victim is killed by [[spoiler:a professional who sneaks onto the lot and strangles him in the bathroom before slipping out]].
** The third victim is [[spoiler:assaulted by a guy dressed in Creator/BruceLee's yellow suit from ''Film/GameOfDeath'' with a homemade shuriken (which misses) and nunchucks (which give her a mild concussion) with a lot of IKnowMortalKombat]].
** The fourth victim is [[spoiler:unharmed as the sniper hired to do the deed proves to be incompetent and keeps dropping the parts of his custom-made sniper rifle and letting the window slip before being finally caught]].
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* SerialKiller: The second book has the LAPD receiving a note after an actor playing Dr. Watson is brutally murdered. The note claims that the sender will keep killing Watsons every day. They assume they're dealing with a serial killer. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a ruse, as only one "Watson" is the real target, and the others are killed mostly to divert attention from that murder]].
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* BadassGay: The second novel reveals that Max is gay and has an on-and-off relationship with a former Australian spy named Chaz.
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* BeeBeeGun: Professor Sherwood has temporarily joined the team to study the viability of using bees for forensics purposes. According to him, bees are far more sensitive to specific scents than any dog's nose. When analyzing a crime scene, he waves around a scanner that looks like a TSA metal detector wand. In fact, the "scanner" is a high-tech container for bees. Each bee is trained to react to a particular scent and is placed in its own compartment (which has a tiny opening to the outside) and attached to a sensor. Whenever a bee detects its scent, it reacts, and the sensor measures how much the bee reacts, corresponding to the strength of the scent, which is then displayed on a small screen on the device. He keeps tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of bees at the team's HQ (luckily, on the roof) and a single hive in the van. He has also gotten adept at using bees to detain suspects, by first spraying them with a special substance that attracts bees and then releasing them. He has also successfully used them for "[[EnhancedInterrogationTechniques enhanced interrogation]]", although he was told to never do that again, as it's bad PR.
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* BeeBeeGun: Professor Sherwood has temporarily joined the team to study the viability of using bees for forensics purposes. According to him, bees are far more sensitive to specific scents than any dog's nose. When analyzing a crime scene, he waves around a scanner that looks like a TSA metal detector wand. In fact, the "scanner" is a high-tech container for bees. Each bee is trained to react to a particular scent and is placed in its own compartment (which has a tiny opening to the outside) and attached to a sensor. Whenever a bee detects its scent, it reacts, and the sensor measures how much the bee reacts, corresponding to the strength of the scent, which is then displayed on a small screen on the device. He keeps tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of bees at the team's HQ (luckily, on the roof) and a single hive in the van. He has also gotten adept at using bees to detain suspects, by first spraying them with a special substance that attracts bees and then releasing them. He has also successfully used them for "[[EnhancedInterrogationTechniques enhanced interrogation]]", although he was told to never do that again, as it's bad PR. In the second book, he has developed a new delivery method called "Her Majesty", which is a drone that contains the hive's queen. The drone can grab onto a suspect, which will result in the bees swarming them.
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''Destructive Reasoning,'' deals with the team tracking down a SerialKiller (sorta) in Los Angeles.
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''Destructive Reasoning,'' Reasoning'' deals with the team tracking down a SerialKiller (sorta) in Los Angeles.
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''The Authorities'' is a 2015 detective novel by Creator/ScottMeyer, featuring a healthy dose of Meyer's signature humor. It is the author's first non-sci-fi novel and is stated to be the first in the eponymous series.
The novel is focused on Sinclair Rutherford, a Seattle uniformed cop, who is frequently put down by detectives, especially since he has once voiced his desire to become a detective himself. Once, when guarding the scene of a murder, he encounters a group of privately-funded detectives colloquially known as "Capp's people" (they are bankrolled by a well-known tech billionaire named Vince Capp), who use cutting-edge technology to investigate crimes. Rutherford manages to distinguish himself by figuring out that the likely murder weapon is a rare fist-shaped metal sex toy (he isn't into that kind of thing; he just happened to have seen a ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' episode, where one was shown). With the help of the reluctant detectives, he manages to track down the murderer and has a fight with him in a public place. The video of the "sex toy fight" goes viral, and Rutherford is personally visited by Vince Capp, who offers him a place on the detective team, which he calls "[[TitleDrop the Authorities]]". The team already includes a brilliant detective, a security expert, a tech guy, a professor who studies the use of bees for forensics purposes, and a manager to run the team. After signing the contract (which Capp doesn't give him time to read), Rutherford finds out that his place on the team is to drive the van and to play the role of a CowboyCop, complete with a (deliberately) mismatched outfit, a cigar (an e-cigar, since he doesn't smoke), and a HandCannon (a modernized version of a Soviet TP-82 triple-barreled gun, given out cosmonauts). He's not happy with the role (especially since he's personally more of a ByTheBookCop) but is told that, should he attempt to quit, Capp's lawyers would destroy him for breach of contract.
The novel is focused on Sinclair Rutherford, a Seattle uniformed cop, who is frequently put down by detectives, especially since he has once voiced his desire to become a detective himself. Once, when guarding the scene of a murder, he encounters a group of privately-funded detectives colloquially known as "Capp's people" (they are bankrolled by a well-known tech billionaire named Vince Capp), who use cutting-edge technology to investigate crimes. Rutherford manages to distinguish himself by figuring out that the likely murder weapon is a rare fist-shaped metal sex toy (he isn't into that kind of thing; he just happened to have seen a ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' episode, where one was shown). With the help of the reluctant detectives, he manages to track down the murderer and has a fight with him in a public place. The video of the "sex toy fight" goes viral, and Rutherford is personally visited by Vince Capp, who offers him a place on the detective team, which he calls "[[TitleDrop the Authorities]]". The team already includes a brilliant detective, a security expert, a tech guy, a professor who studies the use of bees for forensics purposes, and a manager to run the team. After signing the contract (which Capp doesn't give him time to read), Rutherford finds out that his place on the team is to drive the van and to play the role of a CowboyCop, complete with a (deliberately) mismatched outfit, a cigar (an e-cigar, since he doesn't smoke), and a HandCannon (a modernized version of a Soviet TP-82 triple-barreled gun, given out cosmonauts). He's not happy with the role (especially since he's personally more of a ByTheBookCop) but is told that, should he attempt to quit, Capp's lawyers would destroy him for breach of contract.
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''The Authorities'' is a 2015 series of detective novel novels by Creator/ScottMeyer, featuring a healthy dose of Meyer's signature humor. It is These are the author's first non-sci-fi novel novels. The series currently consists of ''The Authorities'' (2015) and is stated to be the first in the eponymous series.
''Destructive Reasoning'' (2022).
Thenovel is novels are focused on Sinclair Rutherford, a Seattle uniformed cop, who is frequently put down by detectives, especially since he has once voiced his desire to become a detective himself. Once, when guarding the scene of a murder, he encounters a group of privately-funded detectives colloquially known as "Capp's people" (they are bankrolled by a well-known tech billionaire named Vince Capp), who use cutting-edge technology to investigate crimes. Rutherford manages to distinguish himself by figuring out that the likely murder weapon is a rare fist-shaped metal sex toy (he isn't into that kind of thing; he just happened to have seen a ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' episode, where one was shown). With the help of the reluctant detectives, he manages to track down the murderer and has a fight with him in a public place. The video of the "sex toy fight" goes viral, and Rutherford is personally visited by Vince Capp, who offers him a place on the detective team, which he calls "[[TitleDrop the Authorities]]". The team already includes a brilliant detective, a security expert, a tech guy, a professor who studies the use of bees for forensics purposes, and a manager to run the team. After signing the contract (which Capp doesn't give him time to read), Rutherford finds out that his place on the team is to drive the van and to play the role of a CowboyCop, complete with a (deliberately) mismatched outfit, a cigar (an e-cigar, since he doesn't smoke), and a HandCannon (a modernized version of a Soviet TP-82 triple-barreled gun, given out cosmonauts). He's not happy with the role (especially since he's personally more of a ByTheBookCop) but is told that, should he attempt to quit, Capp's lawyers would destroy him for breach of contract.
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The 2022 sequel, called ''Destructive Reasoning,'' deals with the team tracking down a SerialKiller (sorta) in Los Angeles.
