Rating:  Summary: Saul Bellow's "Herzog" played in the Carolinas Review: - But with deeper sex drive and shallower roots. Raleigh-based and just-fired pharmaceutical representative Buchanan Forbes is really a bit too young for a Herzogian mid-life crisis. But his wife pushes him over the edge when she packs up boys and goes to live with his father in Charleston. Buchanan's reaction is less than heroic - he has overlapping affairs with three sexy ladies. But perhaps he can be forgiven since the first one is his lawyer. And we hope that the Feds won't be able to bag him for the candy store operation he'd been running with the free physician samples. His wife needed the extra money for a new SUV. As Buchanan runs around and is shadowed around the Carolinas, we experience the charms of the southeastern coastal resorts and the ladies you can find there. Ragged, disconnected and improbable in spots, Buchanan's story nevertheless kept me turning the pages until the morally ambiguous end. Thanks to Brewster Milton Robertson for showing us a new kind of southern novel.
Rating:  Summary: rainy days and sundays Review: a surefire bestseller! an absolute fun read with the literary elegance of Gatsby...unputdownable!
Rating:  Summary: unputdownable Review: an absolute fun read with hints of the literary excellence of Gatsby. unputdownable!
Rating:  Summary: RAINY DAYS AND SUNDAYS Review: AS AN AVID READER OF SUSPENSE NOVELS, IT'S HARD TO FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN SURPRISE ME WITH A "WHO DONE-IT" BREWSTER MILTON ROBERTSON WITH "RAINY DAYS AND SUNDAYS" DID JUST THAT! THE SURPRISE ENDING WILL KEEP YOU AWAKE NIGHTS TO FINISH THE BOOK. A GREAT READ! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!
Rating:  Summary: Rainy Days And Sundays Review: Brewster Milton Robertson's hot thriller, RAINY DAYS AND SUNDAYS, set at the Carolina seashore is a heck of a read. The protagonist, Buchanan Forbes, star pharmaceutical salesperson, devoted father and family man, intellectual, and all around good guy, finds himself on the wrong side of a Federal drug bust. The Feds are aiming to clean up the multi-billion dollar black market in prescription drug and medical device samples involving manufacturers, crooked detailmen, and physicians. To make matters worse the Feds are following the lead of a dingbat conservative President who has just outlawed all abortions and seems determined to return to dark ages politics of the 1950's.Forbes finds himself in the middle of this mess when several young Carolina women die as a result of botched abortions involving experimental IUD's. The Feds pour on the heat and Forbes is wrongly accused of prescription drug theft and sales. His life is further shattered when his faithless wife leaves him taking with her Forbes's four beloved sons. Forbes sets out to put his life and reputation right and he has to fight mighty odds. If and how he is to succeed makes great suspense and a powerful read. Get the book and read it now. It won't wait for a "Rainy Day" or a "Sunday."
Rating:  Summary: Rainy Days And Sundays Review: Brewster Milton Robertson's hot thriller, RAINY DAYS AND SUNDAYS, set at the Carolina seashore is a heck of a read. The protagonist, Buchanan Forbes, star pharmaceutical salesperson, devoted father and family man, intellectual, and all around good guy, finds himself on the wrong side of a Federal drug bust. The Feds are aiming to clean up the multi-billion dollar black market in prescription drug and medical device samples involving manufacturers, crooked detailmen, and physicians. To make matters worse the Feds are following the lead of a dingbat conservative President who has just outlawed all abortions and seems determined to return to dark ages politics of the 1950's. Forbes finds himself in the middle of this mess when several young Carolina women die as a result of botched abortions involving experimental IUD's. The Feds pour on the heat and Forbes is wrongly accused of prescription drug theft and sales. His life is further shattered when his faithless wife leaves him taking with her Forbes's four beloved sons. Forbes sets out to put his life and reputation right and he has to fight mighty odds. If and how he is to succeed makes great suspense and a powerful read. Get the book and read it now. It won't wait for a "Rainy Day" or a "Sunday."
Rating:  Summary: couldnt put it down Review: couldnt put it down.... was reading it during traffic stops. oh...was truely great enjoyment... a must read...
Rating:  Summary: Rainy Days and Sundays Review: Enjoyed! Liked the use of short chapters. Gets the point across without being too wordy. Would like to have seen ending embellished more...with a chapter where Long was drilled by cops as a suspect as Forbes and the doctor were.
Rating:  Summary: At Last! A Good Old Southern Boy provides Suspense! Review: Enter Buchanan Forbes. Devoted father, out-of-work pharmaceutical salesman,with a crumbling marriage and under surveillance from several governmental agencies for black market wholesaling of prescription drugs. And an array of beautiful women who find him attractive. Something for everyone here! A man not immune to women's rights nor sexual emancipation. Lots of Southern sense of place - food and the smell of Carolina beaches, believable characters, many also good old Southern boys wearing college T-shirts and cut-off jeans. Only the women appear liberated and strong-willed. The social problems in the background often appear unnecessary - closing of abortion clinics, a return to back alley butchers, problems with the IRS, possession- hungry wives trying to climb social ladders. Buchanan faces them all as he tries to put his life back on track. What a man! What a story!
Rating:  Summary: Unputdownable Review: Great read. Echoes of the literary excellence of Gatsby. Absolutely unputdownable!
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