Long ago, I found the first book I read in the series
hilarious, especially the incompetent dentist; the second
so-so; and the third written on a template that just stuck a
different Hollywood star into the plot and gags of the first
two. I like his Russian books better but had some deja vu
while reading the last one. Joy
Mark Sullivan wrote in response to Etienne, who wrote: "I,
personally have a lot more difficulties to accept the
cardboard settings of Kaminsky's novels and their
conventional intrigues."
>
> And that is why I ultimately gave up on them. For a
few, though, I
> enjoyed the slightly campy nature of them and I
guess I just preferred
> the movie history and trivia to Collins's political
history. Although I
> had given up on Toby Peters before I read my first
Nate Heller, so I
> might have had the opposite reaction if I had read
the Hellers first.
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