Review: He Plays a Mean Sax
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2013
What are the ingredients in a good book of fiction? Is it the plot? The characters? Maybe the setting? "Unprotected Sax" has all three and then some.Setting? Miami, Florida. I don't know about you but I get tired of reading books that are always set in New York City. But a book with a different setting? Never having been to Miami, I was ready for this one. Now you're talking, man. And with a couple of surprise visits to the swamp, namely the Everglades with pythons and gators and air-boats and raging swamp fires, I can handle that.Plot? Saxophone player JD, freshly back from our latest war, joins with a piano player, bass picker, singer (need I mention cute?) and drummer (who also does the arranging and runs the band) who are living the life, playing jazz, which is all fine and dandy, well not so dandy, because the drummer, Paul is also a gator poacher. But it's not the illegal hunting that gets him in trouble, it's what he happened to witness in the Glades - a Russian mobster killing a man and dumping the body. Paul doesn't show up for rehearsal and the band and the reader have to wonder what happened to the dude?Characters? Of course the members of the band, the Russians, some Italians who are more than ready to move in on the scene should the Russians screw up and get nailed for murder, Canadian senior citizens, some local cops and the FBI.Well, it all meshes together making for a great read, not to mention a fun title, "Unprotected Sax" and it's a enjoyable mystery- thriller I'd highly recommend.Denniger