I loved this book, especially the last chapter and, as you
noted, the well-rounded bad guys. My only problem with it,
which perhaps you can address, is that it seemed to me that
the illegal gun dealer (Ulysses?) wasn't making any money. He
seemed to have a low-volume, low-profit business, with lots
of intermediaries to pay off, and he would have had a higher
income if he had stayed in the police department. Am I
missing something?
Joy the literalist
Graham Powell wrote:
> I just finished SOUL CIRCUS last night, and I
thought it was pretty good,
my
> favorite of the three Strange/Quinn books. There's a
few preachy
stretches,
> but generally Pelecanos shows you the results of gun
violence instead of
> telling you how bad it is. . . .
> One that Pelecanos still does as well as he ever did
is write bad guys.
All
> the characters come across as real people, never as
stock villains. And
he
> still writes with the same convincing authority that
he always has. I
just
> sort of hope he writes more about his misspent youth
than his sober middle
> age.
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