Carioca Fletch [Mass Market Paperback]

Gregory Mcdonald (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1984

Carioca Fletch

Fletch’s trip to Brazil wasn’t exactly planned. But it’s Carnival time in Rio and he has plenty of money, thanks to a little arrangement made stateside. And it took him no time to hook up with the luscious Laura Soares. Fletch is beginning to relax, just a little.

Carioca Fletch

But between the American widow who seems to be following Fletch and the Brazilian widow who’s fingered Fletch as her long-dead husband, he suddenly doesn’t have much time to enjoy the present or even get a wink of sleep.

Carioca Fletch

A thirty-year-old unsolved murder, a more recent suicide, an inconvenient heart attack–somehow Fletch is connected to all of them and one of those connections might just shorten his own life. From Rio to Bahia and back again, at the height of Carnival, Fletch has to keep moving or get stopped cold.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"Mcdonald is so smart, terse and witty that he is an outright pleasure to read. I'm going back now and read all the Fletch books in order." --Peter Straub --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Carioca Fletch

Fletch?s trip to Brazil wasn?t exactly planned. But it?s Carnival time in Rio and he has plenty of money, thanks to a little arrangement made stateside. And it took him no time to hook up with the luscious Laura Soares. Fletch is beginning to relax, just a little.

Carioca Fletch

But between the American widow who seems to be following Fletch and the Brazilian widow who?s fingered Fletch as her long-dead husband, he suddenly doesn?t have much time to enjoy the present or even get a wink of sleep.

Carioca Fletch

A thirty-year-old unsolved murder, a more recent suicide, an inconvenient heart attack?somehow Fletch is connected to all of them and one of those connections might just shorten his own life. From Rio to Bahia and back again, at the height of Carnival, Fletch has to keep moving or get stopped cold. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Warner Books> C/o Little Br; First Printing edition (April 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446303046
• ISBN-13: 978-0446303040
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,206,377 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not terrible...., December 9, 2008

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Michael Dattoli - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carioca Fletch (Paperback)

After reading all of the negative reviews of Carioca Fletch, I was skeptical that the book would be able to keep my interest. I've just now finished reading the book and, while this is not the most captivating Fletch story in the series, I certainly didn't find it to be as bad as described by others.

In my opinion, it was a nice change of pace from the other Fletch books. There is not a lot of suspense or mystery, however I appreciated the fact that Fletch seemed to be in awe of Brazil. Also, his interactions with the Tap Dancers were pretty comical.

My biggest gripe is that Mcdonald didn't write a mystery about Fletch in Italy. I know it is touched on in other books, but I was hoping there would have been a story about Fletch moving to Italy (vs a whole book about Fletch in Brazil).

Either way, Carioca Fletch is still a good read if you are a fan of the series...it just doesn't compare to the others in terms of suspense and mystery (which is unfortunate as that is pretty much the genre Mcdonald was writing).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never believe everything you read, April 12, 2007

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orvuus (Birmingham, AL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carioca Fletch (Paperback)

Like one other reviewer, I have to say this is an excellent Fletch book -- one of the best, in my opinion. Here Fletch takes on a whole new dimension in a foreign land, and personally I find the situation where he is mistaken for being a reincarnation of a Brazilian hilarious. This is also, as another reviewer mentioned, the closest we will come to having a supernatural Fletch story.

I just discovered Fletch a couple of weeks ago and now have read almost all the Fletch books, Flynn books, and am working on the two Skylar books.

Great author -- and almost all his books are consistently entertaining, and sometimes sublime.

My highest recommendation: Flynn's World.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it, but I guess I'm the only one, February 8, 2007

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Joel D. Inwood - See all my reviews
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It is definitly more about Brazil than the story line, but Brazil is the story here. If I'm not mistaken, McDonald was a journalist at some point, and he's gotten at a travel story from a different angle here. It's a very Fletch adventure, just as Fletch's Fortune was with the old south. This time Brazil is a charicter. If you've read the rest, then, like me, you were probably jonsing for another adventure. It delivers.