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Summary: Some deception, but mostly aggravated lying!
Review: Old style detective writing with some "generation X" characters. Jack is tasked with helping out a friend. This favor for a friend leads Jack to dirty sex, drugs, violence, lies, murder, conspiracy, manipulation, double-cross, an Asian gang, revenge, cyperspace, and a measure of probity. How Jack prevails over it is interesting and fun. Sort of a cross between James Rockford and an Elmore Leonard (maybe "Get Shorty") character. I enjoyed the fast pace which reminded me of a "Spencer" novel. Unlike Spencer and perhaps more like Rockford, Jack is broke and doesn't have a love life, but this does not keep Richard Abshire from giving us a manifest sexual subject-matter.
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Summary: Some deception, but mostly aggravated lying!
Review: Old style detective writing with some "generation X" characters. Jack is tasked with helping out a friend. This favor for a friend leads Jack to dirty sex, drugs, violence, lies, murder, conspiracy, manipulation, double-cross, an Asian gang, revenge, cyperspace, and a measure of probity. How Jack prevails over it is interesting and fun. Sort of a cross between James Rockford and an Elmore Leonard (maybe "Get Shorty") character. I enjoyed the fast pace which reminded me of a "Spencer" novel. Unlike Spencer and perhaps more like Rockford, Jack is broke and doesn't have a love life, but this does not keep Richard Abshire from giving us a manifest sexual subject-matter.
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