Broken Faith

Fanfiction
Title:	Broken Faith
Author(s):	Jan Lindner
Date(s):	1980
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Genre(s):	gen
Fandom(s):	Starsky & Hutch
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Broken Faith is a gen Starsky & Hutch story by Jan Lindner.

It was printed in Casa Cabrillo.

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  Connie Faddis -- "Artwork: the best is Faddis’, out front and running away. The illos for ‘Broken Faith’ are easily her finest work since the ‘shadow-man’ Hutch in The Pits #2 [incidentally, this reviewer wrote ‘shadow-man’]. The characters’ weariness and fear comes through with mirror clarity… "

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  Connie Faddis, this was the winner of an Encore Award.

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  Connie Faddis

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  Connie Faddis

Reactions and Reviews

1980

I like the end of "Broken Faith” too, an attempt to deal with the effect of age on them, trying to keep alive is difficult enough without looking for trouble.

Broken Faith: Fairly taut, post-Sweet Revenge story. Both the illustrations and the story had the air of professionalism. I'm afraid we may soon lose Jan to the real world with stories like this. The Hospices in this area are good, so I was glad to see that Jan did not condemn all of them. (Won’t Penny consider the back-rub, etc. a courtship gesture?)

Broken Faith by Jan Linder is very good, and well written, tho' it has a tendency to skirt away from some major issues with such an...

Thought a long time about how to voice my feelings on Broken Faith. Still can't do it. Liked it and yet I didn't. [...]

Broken Faith — I hate to say anything critical about anyone's work. I mean, I know I couldn't do half or a quarter what all you people have done, but although I enjoyed Broken Faith - I did miss the close relationship between Starsky and Hutch. I suppose I slightly resented the intrusion of the others, namely Jane and Mark. Silly, I know, but it’s just my opinion for what it’s worth.

1981

The third hosanna goes out to ‘Broken Faith.” This is the second novella (the first was ‘Hide and Seek’ in One Shot) in a probably series of post-Sweet Revenge stories. The connection between the two lies in their asides and resolutions, not in the similarities of their primary plots.

In ‘Hide and Seek,’ Starsky returned to the forced and admitted in the course of the story that he could no longer hack Supercop; in ‘Broken Faith,’ both S&H decide by the end they should transfer to less strenuous duty, for while investigating a self-proclaimed Messiah and his truck farm, Starsky came Nearer My God To Thee. There is a problem in criticizing a still evolving series – a critic can read too much out of what is merely coincidence. There’s a problem in writing them, too – the author can’t back up and fix contradictions or lay foreshadowing for a later brilliant idea. In both ‘Hide and Seek’ and ‘Broken Faith’ there is on odd tiredness to the characters, a distance that made it difficult for me personally to get really engaged into the story. This is not to say ‘Broken Faith’ wasn’t well-written, aptly characterized or tightly-plotted, for it was all those things. But I am guess that this tiredness in S&H is deliberateness on Linder’s part and will be dealt with or resolved in future chapters.

1982

Much the same judgment must ultimately apply to ‘Broken Faith.’ In this novella, Starsky goes undercover as a disciple in a religious commune, with Hutch as the ‘outside’ man. Their murder investigation proceeds without surprise or measurable suspense; the plot hums along steadily,… When S&H decide to quite the LAPD at the end, one is given to wonder whether it’s not a matter of sheer ennui at be forced to cuckoo every hour on the hour. On the positive side, they like the story’s other people, have received rather more attention than the plot. Mark, friend of the victim and Starsky’s ‘sponsor’ inside the Hospice, comes across as an intelligent, personal youngster. Hutch is very well-drawn and we are given a Starsky that is almost brilliant. That ‘almost,’ in fact, represents the crux of the story’s true failure. As the situation is originally set up, Starsky is subjected to the initial stages of a subtle and clever brainwashing, in the course of which he confesses the guilt feelings stemming from his perceived neglect of his brother. Mark then becomes a surrogate for Nick as well as an ally, and … nothing. The author simply abandons this line of development… Worse, it deprives the novella of its major thematic focus, at one reducing the issues to glib superficialities an severing the connection between the case under investigation and S&H’s personal concerns….