Review: Amusing absurdity!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2013
This tale, introducing former hitman Sandy and his wacky entourage was cute, if a trifle lengthy.Middle-aged Sandy has opened a private investigator's office in the coastal California town of Point Insertion. Enter Myla Campbell, who asks his help in halting the unknown person who wants to kill her. Sandy takes the job, assisted by Jenna, his karate black-belt teenage secretary/office manager, inept local police and his former boss. Sandy's problem: if he takes a case he cannot sleep until it is over.Sandy is quick to realize that his nemesis from his assassin days is the man chasing Myla, who owns land that according to legend was once the site of an attempted German landing during WWII.The yarn becomes increasingly absurd as sleep-deprived Sandy begins hallucinating, and the killer brings a small army into play... Then, things get worse, with shoot-outs, car and foot chases, battles in underground tunnels, explosives and the like ...Fewer sidetracks might have improved the plot but it is nonetheless worth the read.