Review: Wanted Antonio Cruz.....got ??
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2013
First, Mr. Fields is extremely personable and answers even my most trivial e-mails.  Would like to meet him someday as our backgrounds may have been very similar, but different....does that make sense?  He appears to have been heavily involved in the Casino industry, while I was a corporate investigator for both domestic and foreign major retail firms.  Jim Field has given me some insight into his world and the comedic reportage at times, is terrific.His dialogue, repartee and banter, between the characters is probably among the best out there....but at times in this book, it got tedious. Every line, every discussion was filled with innuendos and sexual nuances.  Real life in my world was not like that....oh, sure there was some at various leisure moments, but it was not constant all-day long.  Maybe, the Casino scene is different...and I just don't know!!Jim Fields is superb in doing something I've seen before....he defined chapters with no "Chapter Headings".  He simply used bold type in the first words of the new segment and it worked!  It literally made the book flow throughout, very clever....!!He has two new characters in this novel.  And actually, I did not care for either one (Cyra and Preston).  The story-line was kind of flat and really not too exciting.  Maybe we need Antonio Cruz for a bit more mystery and action, neither Cyra or Preston appears capable to take on someone really "dangerous and tough".And again, maybe a few less pool parties and a little more intrigue and how much trouble can our hero get into.  By the way, the Mark Ford character is excellent (had a "right-hand man" of the same ilk myself).All said and done, I will be buying more Jim Fields books (even Donald Westlake and Dashiell Hammett didn't hit a homerun every time)!!