It's out of print and practically out of OOP. I've ordered a
$5 ex-library book that's condition sounds like it was
dropped in a bathtub. Oh, well, I'm a reader, not a
collector.
I know Eversz was living in Prague
about two years ago, but recently he was in California. Maybe
he goes back and forth.
Joy
Mark Sullivan described:
> It's about a likeable enough, non-violent con man
claiming to be a
> Hollywood producer -- he's in Prague trying to raise
money for his next
> film. Of course, there is no film. He gets taken by
a pretty
> stereotypical femme fatale, then tracks her down,
conning her way across
> Europe with (is he really?) her brother. I found his
obsession
> uncovincing (unlike the one in, say, Will
Christopher Baer's Kiss Me
> Judas -- even if that book relied on the hoary
"wakes up in an
> ice-filled tub without his kidney" urban legend) and
the plot terribly
> predictable. The jacket copy calls it a comic
thriller, but I don't
> remember much humor beyond some of the narrator's
smartass comments. I
> figured it was just a comment to appeal to fans of
Shooting Elvis.
>
> The writing on Prague, though, is very good. Again
according to the
> jacket copy, Eversz moved there in 1992. Does he
still live there? Is
> his writing on LA in the Nina Zero books just from
memory? Those books
> have a great sense of place, too.
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