Silent Joe

Rating:
Summary: An interesting exercise
Review: You have to give Parker points for taking risks. I'm sure I've never read a myster with a hero/narrator quite like this one. Isolated from the rest of humanity by a gruesome childhood disfigurement, Silent Joe is just the kind of person you expect to grow up to be pushed out to the margins of society, and grow up to be an angry, selfish monster. But he lucks out because of internal assets (eidetic memory, extreme strength of will) and of his loving, wealthy adoptive parents. The end result is not quite believable, almost like a comic book superhero.