Slightly underwhelming thriller about a man’s quest to retrieve a stash of hidden gold. Evan Michael Tanner travels through many countries and encounters many characters, even getting mixed up in a revolution in Macedonia.
It’s fast-paced and fun, but unusually “thin” on tension and credibility for Lawrence Block. I was left unsatisfied and happy to make it to the end.
The character’s most remarkable feature – the fact that he “hasn’t slept a wink since a piece of shrapnel destroyed the sleep centre in his brain during the Korean War” – is oddly underplayed.
The cover image of a sexy girl leaning on an American car has absolutely nothing to do with the story.
It’s fast-paced and fun, but unusually “thin” on tension and credibility for Lawrence Block. I was left unsatisfied and happy to make it to the end.
The character’s most remarkable feature – the fact that he “hasn’t slept a wink since a piece of shrapnel destroyed the sleep centre in his brain during the Korean War” – is oddly underplayed.
The cover image of a sexy girl leaning on an American car has absolutely nothing to do with the story.
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