Review: A detective or a standup comic?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2013
I did not care too much for this book although it was a quick read to pass the time. For the first three quarters of the book, the protagonist, Sam North, did nothing but stumble about offending people, following some unexplained instinct. The 'smart mouth' dialogue added little and soon became quite tiresome. Could anyone be so stupid as to not go to the police after being threatened so many times by muscle that was so like in a ... er, novel?Most of the characters in the story were thin, and sometimes so bizarre as to destroy any believability - except maybe for his girlfriend, Liz. North proved again his stupidity by not locking up his relationship with her. I felt no identity with his coworkers in the news office.Towards the very end, some cleverness showed up when a trap was set to catch the killers. Unfortunately, here again North talked and talked even when his death was moments away - give me a break.