relentless - dean kootz
I thought (not based on anything but raving prejudice, by the way) that Dean Kootz wrote these hard-ball, Jack Reachery tough guy novels, and sort of avoided him for ages, because I was afraid I wouldn't like his books. I think Stephen King spoke highly of him, though, so I decided to give Relentless a shot.
And it was very good! A Reacher-like story of being on the run, but with a rather wimpish writer guy as the hero. Entertaining, fast-paced, hugely funny in situations where you wouldn't think a writer would be able to come up with hilarious scenes that actually work - excellent. The resolution was pretty dumb, though, but who cares - if you set yourself up in this way it's impossible to resolve the story even semi-plausibly. I forgive him. Since the ride there was great.
Oh man, another writer with a rather large back catalogue discovered...
04-02-2010
