Jack Flippo, the hero of Big Town, is now a ""recovering deadbeat"" investigating an insurance scam with an attractive barkeep and facing jack-in-the-box corpses, an attack with an Elvis lamp, and exploding vehicles.
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From Publishers Weekly
Part of the growing Good Ol' Boy subgenre in crime fiction is the second appearance of Jack Flippo, the lawyer's investigator introduced in Big Town. In Baggett County, East Texas, a partner in a sleazy Dallas bar drowns in a "boating accident," leaving the other owner, erstwhile songwriter and tough guy Rex Echols, the happy beneficiary of a $500,000 insurance policy. Sent to check into things before the money is paid out, Jack finds a mean-eyed sheriff and assorted other local officials who are inclined neither to look into the affair nor to welcome Jack's presence. Jack's efforts to track down the one witness who might shed some light on the drowning leads to an alliance with Sally Danvers, a bartender at Echols's bar, who, of course, is nothing like the airhead bimbos who flounce through the rest of the narrative. Jack must also deal with his ex-wife's beau, who, angry at Jack's lopping off his ponytail in a barroom dispute, has placed him under filmed surveillance. None of this is very believable, and the characters are mainly walking cliches. Even Jack, waxing witty and ironic in nearly all circumstances, eventually begins to pall. World rights: Witherspoon & Associates.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Newly licensed private investigator Jack Flippo, working insurance fraud out of Dallas, checks into the suspicious drowning death of a gambling man highly insured by his business partner. He soon latches on to obvious collusion between local officials in rural Texas where the victim drowned and the shady operator of an ailing Dallas bar. Flippo's brash and dogged pursuit of the truth of course uncovers more murder and instigates mayhem. Off-the-wall characters, rough-and tumble action, and twangy, sharp-edged prose mark Flippo's second appearance (Big Town, HarperCollins, 1994).
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Swanson's second book is funnier, yet darker, than the first,
This review is from: Dreamboat (Hardcover)
This second book by Doug Swanson did not suffer from a "sophomore slump." It is as funny as his first book (Big Town), but a little darker. The only fault I can find is a funny, but extraneous subplot with a couple of rather inept filmmakers. An enjoyable read!
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