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The Cracked Earth: A Jack Liffey Mystery

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The line from Faulkner, about writing was that you have to "kill all your darlings". I thought of it after reading this book. It wasn't bad. I read all the way through. Parts were interesting. The character of Lee Borowsky, the girl that Jack Liffey's trying to find for most of the book, is very memorable. But there's just a bit too much implicit cheering for everyone the author likes. There's a bit of political correctness at times and the plot stretches credulity at times such as a huge japanese corporation going after a computer graphics company with a guy who firebombs them. Then the computer graphics company hacks the corporation's computers and takes $12 million of their money and gives it away to charities. But we're supposed to believe that the corporation just says, 'Aw shucks, you guys are so tough. We give up.' I suspect things would get rougher and/or litigation to bankrupt the computer graphics company would quickly ensue.

The writing is fine just not good enough to make up for the slightly insular feeling world created with it.