Menaced Assassin
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Book Overview
It began with the murder of the adulterous wife of a mild-mannered professor. Then a corrupt cop was gunned down in a phone booth. After that, the killer who called himself Raptor moved through a list of players, playboys, and mobsters from Palm Springs to Minnesota. And the final truth about his death trip will not be revealed until the last victim is claimed.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0446403903
ISBN13:9780446403900
Release Date:December 1995
Publisher:Mysterious Press
Length:367 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Difficult task done reasonably well
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I should state outfront that I am a Joe Gores fan, and that I served as a technical advisor on this book and was given a small, almost unnoticed walk-on. The book takes on two really tough tasks: It is written in two voices, a first for Gores; and it takes on a philosophical theme and tries to interweave it with a mystery story.As much as I like Gores' work, I don't think he quite succeeded, here, although even the partial failure is a very good read, and one does care who-dun-it. He writes good characters and his setting in San Francisco is evocative. Those not familiar with his work might do better to begin with 32 Cadillacs or one of the DKA series, then read Wolf Time before taking on Menaced Assasin.
Stilted & Difficult Reading
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Menaced Assissin is an interesting book of murder & revenge. However, it is filled with a disertation of evolutionary theories throughout which could have been condensed. I sometimes got the feeling that the writer's main focus was to demonstrate his knowledge, and push his idea of evolution on the reader by embedding it in this novel. The reading was also stilted and difficult to read at times. However, it was an interesting story with graphic descriptions of the killings, which kept me interested in knowing who the killer was.
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