Customer Reviews

Michigan Roll

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I had read this in the mid 90's originally and loved it. Just read it again and still enjoyed it. I have recommended this one and Criss Cross (another non series title by Kakonis) to others and it was appreciated. The Tim Waverly character is appealing (ex con-ex literature professor now a card counting gambler) with some remnants and scruples still of his former life in academia. Any dialogue involving the two low lifes sent to retrieve the money stolen from Mr. Big (Gleep and Shadow) or their handler Mr. Gaylon was absolutely priceless. The author is compared in the review to Elmore Leonard - but to my mind he is a little edgier - perhaps more in the Eugene Izzi, Timothy Watts category.

Just superb. Hardboiled meanstreets plot, and interesting well-drawn characters, but it's the style, the pure mastery of word and image. Really really good. Alan Furst good. Pete Dexter good. That should say enough.

It is funny that I read this book for the first time in the mid to late 1990's (maybe 1996) and loved it back then.

Just re-read it today and found it to be very readable but not nearly in the 5 star class as I used to think it deserved.

The story is ok, Kakonis blends humour with drama pretty well. It is a good crime yarn but just seems to lack some certain depth to it. Can't put my finger on it but I just feel it lacked something......