On medical leave from the Boston Police Department, the eccentric Police Inspector and offbeat operative, Francis Xavier Flynn might have his most perplexing assignment yet. Someone is giving away hundreds of millions of dollars, and Flynn has to find out who in a hurry. As he races from Texas to Las Vegas, from Massachusetts to Russia, Flynn quickly discovers that this is not the pastime of an eccentric billionaire, nor is it a nefarious counterfeiting scheme. Someone is looking to wreck the nation’s economy and bizarrely enough, spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn’s most dizzying logic is put to the test, but the clue he needs could be somewhere in his own murky past.
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“Two-time Edgar winner Mcdonald . . . has created another complicated, crusty, engaging character. Fascinating.” –Booklist
“Flynn’s repartee is state of the art: rangily allusive, deceptively gentle. And Mcdonald’s blend of parody, farce, and sentiment . . . is rich, yet spare, edgily appealing.” --Kirkus
“Flynn’s repartee is state of the art: rangily allusive, deceptively gentle. And Mcdonald’s blend of parody, farce, and sentiment . . . is rich, yet spare, edgily appealing.” --Kirkus
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On medical leave from the Boston Police Department, the eccentric Police Inspector and offbeat operative, Francis Xavier Flynn might have his most perplexing assignment yet. Someone is giving away hundreds of millions of dollars, and Flynn has to find out who in a hurry. As he races from Texas to Las Vegas, from Massachusetts to Russia, Flynn quickly discovers that this is not the pastime of an eccentric billionaire, nor is it a nefarious counterfeiting scheme. Someone is looking to wreck the nation?s economy and bizarrely enough, spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn?s most dizzying logic is put to the test, but the clue he needs could be somewhere in his own murky past.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The best of the "Flynn" series,
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This review is from: The Buck Passes Flynn (Mass Market Paperback)
McDonald's hero "Flynn" is not as popular as his "Fletch" series, but "The Buck Passes Flynn" is the best of the series and every bit as good as a Fetch novel. The theme, that someone is making random $100,000 deposits on the doorsteps of every home in small communities around the country and creating havoc in the process, is quite fascinating (though admittedly dated, it would probably be about $250,000 today). It is a mystery worthy of the great Inspector Flynn, and is told in a humorous style for which McDonald is known. Overall, a great book for fans of detective fiction.
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A Good Fun Mystery-Adventure,
By GOODfly (San Diego) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Buck Passes Flynn (Paperback)
If you like wisecracking private investigators, the FLYNN books are for you. This book whirls around a unique and intriguing plot which begins with every person in small towns across America waking up to find $100,000 cash on their doorsteps. Naturally, chaos ensues! THE BUCK PASSES FLYNN was published in 1981, so a lot of the technology and social mores are dated. Nevertheless, the storytelling and the wry, dry, intelligent hero hold up very well. Not all of the plot points ultimately pay off, but this mystery-adventure was good fun.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thrilling and thoughtful,
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Have you read a Fletch book? Flynn is, in some ways, Fletch's flipside - he is a perfect gentleman, a devoted family man even, who works for the forces of law and order - but if free spirit Fletch lives in fun stories that might give you some pause for thought, reliable Reluctant Flynn lives in hilarious stories that might later keep you up nights in deep contemplation.
McDonald is a damn good storyteller, running his clever characters through a series of plausible situations with snowballing root causes that give broad opportunity for adventure and the display of wry wit. Flynn and Fletch are his vehicles for some of the best dialogue I've seen in print. This is one of my favorite McDonald books. My biggest problem with the work is that I keep giving copies away to friends and having to purchase more.
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