The Frost-Haired Vixen (Zach Johnson) [Kindle Edition]

John Zakour (Author)

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Product Description

In the year 2060, freelance private investigator Zach Johnson tackles his strangest case yet--solving the murders of two elves at the North Pole. Zach must match wits, muscle, and technology against a bevy of superhuman females, a mutant elf with an attitude, killer robots, and even a couple of nerds with an agenda in this hilarious follow-up "The Radioactive Redhead."

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 429 KB
• Print Length: 352 pages
• Publisher: Daw (December 5, 2006)
• Sold by: Penguin Publishing
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002DMZ9WC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #404,746 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars comic futuristic thriller, December 8, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Frost-Haired Vixen (Mass Market Paperback)

The only private detective in existence in the year 2061 is Zachary Nixon Johnson and whenever he is on a case, which are few and far between, mayhem and destruction follow. His latest client is the mutant Santana Clausa who works in the North Pole with a few thousand cloned elves who make three presents for each person for the winter holiday, an event that removes all religious connotations from what used to be Christmas, Hanukah and Kwanza.

Her problem is that someone killed two of her elves which everyone thought was impossible because the North Pole is the happiest place in the world. Zach accepts the assignment but before he goes to the North Pole he is attacked by killer bots. When he arrives at the North Pole, a bot tries to smother him with a pillow and other attempts are made on his life. With the help of his AI supercomputer HARV, he narrows the suspects down to the people who are visiting the North Pole but doesn't rule out an insider reprogramming the bots to kill.

John Zakour has written a serio-comic tale with the emphasis on comic futuristic thriller. There is so much humor in the tale that reader will find themselves instantly laughing out loud. Although the tone of THE FROST-HAIRED VIXEN is light, there is a serious undertone to the story. The protagonist is a man out of time, better suited to the twentieth century where he could be a Phillip Marlow then an almost extinct operative who relies on easy getting information and mid twenty first century technology.

Harriet Klausner

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loads of fun!, August 8, 2007

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K. Sozaeva "Obsessive bibliophile" (Athens, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Frost-Haired Vixen (Mass Market Paperback)

John Zakour goes it alone in this, the fourth book featuring freelance PI Zachary Nixon Johnson - the only freelance PI left in the world in the year 2060. In his latest adventure, he is approached by Santana Clausa - who runs the North Pole to make the toys for Holiday, when each person on Earth receives 3 presents. Two of the elves that she oversees have been murdered and she wants Zach to find out who did the deed.

Immediately people start trying to kill him. Just another day in the life of Zachary Nixon Johnson!

When he arrives at the Pole, he goes undercover to try to determine who among the current guests may have been the murderers. With guardbots being reprogrammed to attack him, sugared-up Elves all around and argumentative fellow guests to contend with, this won't be a walk in the snow.

In some ways this book was superior to the joint ventures in the previous works - it is a bit more gritty and "real." In others, it needed more work - there were a lot more typos and grammatical errors, for instance. All-in-all, I would say it holds its own against the first three books in the series and I look forward to seeing where Zakour takes this most amusing cross-genre series in the future. Keep 'em coming!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for John Zakour's first solo effort, but editing was a distraction, April 12, 2008

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Matthew Castelli (Fredericksburg, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Frost-Haired Vixen (Mass Market Paperback)

This is John Zakour's first solo effort of the series and it seems he is trying to get comfortable with "flying solo". The story was pretty solid but this book definitely needed a better copy editor/proof reader. The number of typos and grammatical errors were frequent enough that they were a distraction from the story itself.