SLIGHT STORY SPOILER BELOW
A word on the Hunter: I don't know Hunter much at all (no
87th Precinct
under my belt)--maybe only the screenplay to _The Birds_. I
thought the
opening prose was really bad--but then I wondered if this was
a strategy
of the story. I found the goodwill of the protagonist cloying
and
wished, like the other characters, that he would shut up. The
ending
seemed not just to kill off the protagonist, but to put an
end to his
mode of cliched, jolly language. For those who know
Hunter/McBain, does
this reading make sense or does he genuinely tend toward
the
sentimental?
Bah Humbug,
Doug Levin
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