> "Give bartender Nick Stefanos a bottle of booze,
a
> pack of smokes, and some good lovin', and he's a
happy man. Nick lives
> for the first and last drinks of the day and all the
drinks between,
> but once in a while, he comes out of his alcoholic
fog and does some
> detecting work.
That's not exactly fair, but he does start the book on an
epic bender, does plenty of boozing along the way, and ends
up at the start of another bender
("This one started at the Spot.") That review just makes him
sound so stereotypical, when he's just a stand up guy with a
problem.
Graham
------------- http://www.BleekerBooks.com
Hardboiled and Noir
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