Paul wrote:
"I loved the 1st two books in the "Drake" series, though I
hear that the subsequent ones are not up to snuff."
I agree about the Drake books. Name of the Game and One
Endless Hour are both excellent, but Operaton Fireball is a
huge drop off. I hear they only get worse from there.
I recently read Vengeance Man. It was good, but it was more
of a smalltown politics and corruption book. I prefer his
loner and/or criminal books. Four for the Money was
excellent.
I'm currently reading Never Live Twice. Less than half way
through, it's an odd amalgam of a spy novel and a "man with
amnesia trying to find out what happened to him" book. So far
it's pretty good, but I'll be a bit surprised if he can pull
it all together satisfactorily.
By the way, Marlowe breaks one of Leonard's rules in this
book, opens with a prologue. However, there would have been
no other way to provide the information it contains. It
describes in third person what happened just before Ted
Blaine lost his memory. The rest of the book is a first
person account by Blaine's from the moment he wakes up with
amnesia. The little bit of information the reader has that
Blaine doesn't makes for a nice tension.
Mark
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