When San Francisco private eye Aaron Asherfield is hired to track down a missing businessman, his investigation takes on a kinky dimension as he meets a host of characters from the city's sleazy underside.
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From Publishers Weekly
San Francisco shamus Aaron Asherfeld is distinguished mostly for his political incorrectness. First novelist Berlinski doesn't tell us why his sleuth is so opinionated and prejudiced, nor can we guess as we follow Asherfeld through a series of vaguely sketched plot turns. He is hired by a black mobster to find a businessman who has vanished, leaving behind a huge debt, a software company with a zoning problem, a wife and a sleazy, compromising photo of him and his girlfriend. Even after his employer is murdered, Asherfeld stays on the case, making the rounds of pornography joints and other San Francisco tourist traps, pressing the patience of the software execs and seeking clues among various city lowlifes. Asherfeld is a one-note wiseguy whose motor mouth gets him in and out of tight spots, and the plodding plot, centering around a missing person, fails to sustain interest or suspense.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Aaron Asherfeld, private investigator and hard-tack narrator, flavors his San Francisco surroundings with abrasive wit and noxious emanations (including racial slurs and sexist remarks) as he attempts to locate a missing businessman for his soon-murdered employer. Suitably cryptic descriptions and clipped style accompany Aaron's meeting with sleazy topless bar owners, a forbidding bondage "artist," and a lying preacher. Narrative disclaimers aside, Aaron's remarks may offend readers of this otherwise mostly entertaining first novel. For the sardonic at heart.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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