Finished Jonathan King's The Blue Edge of Midnight yesterday.
An ex-cop chased by those notorious inner demons, running
from the past but drawn into a murder investigation of which
he is a prime suspect. Nothing really out of the ordinary.
Some loose ends in the plot that were less than convincing.
And yet it still came across as a good story. A good sense of
place, even if, to me, it invoked a lot of literary license
when describing the Everglades and, especially, the Loop
Road. A good book.
And today I walked through one in a single day, Gischler's
Pistol Poets. Long flight out to San Diego, with a long
layover in Denver. Man, that is some beautiful territory from
Denver on out. Truly magnificent. Back to Pistol Poets,
though. I loved Gun Monkeys, but this one just served to
remind me of why I got tired of reading Carl Hiaasen. Wacky
and absurd characters in outrageous circumstances and
har-dee-har comedy. Been there. Done that. Didn't buy the
t-shirt. One good thing about Gischler, though. I didn't have
to put up with the preachy environmentalism.
Tomorrow a long day of meetings and then the evening down to
Tijuana to practice my Spanish and see the sights.
miker
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