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Bad News Bible: Faith Zanetti (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)

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Don't read this book if you are trying to understand the Israel Palestine situation, do read it if you are interested in the world of ravaged war correspondents. Faith Zanetti is hilarious and astutely observed as are her friends and enemies in the press pack.

This book is powerful and moving, not to mention thrilling and exiting. Seriously, Anna Blundy delivers a fine balance of adventure and emotion in this book, which is undoubtedly her best, I would say, excepting that I have not read Double Shot yet.

Bundy writes a truly mediocre book full of all the false petrodollar-well-funded anti-Israel stereotypes. Don't read the book if you are interested in gaining any insights into the situation in the Middle East. Don't read the book if you are interested in reading a well written or interesting fictional mystery. In short, unless you are in prison and this is the only thing given to you to try to kill time don't waste your time with this book (and in that case just read it to laugh at how bad it is!).

I am reasonably certain that Miss Bundy has never set foot in Israel, and if she has, that she spent as much of her time boozing herself silly in the hotel bar, and as little of it actually observing anything about her, as do the pathetic protagonists of her truly mediocre book.

Had this book not been billed as "set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" one could never have guessed where the weak plot plays out. Not one of her middle eastern characters rings true to life, nor does she have anything at all to say about the conflict or its issues.

If you're interested in a vaguely seedy and slow moving mystery about a sorry bunch of addicts wallowing in self-pity and constantly in desperate need of a shrink, or their mummy, or maybe just another few rounds of vodka and valium -then go ahead and read this book. Otherwise, I'd give it a miss.