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Playing the Dozens

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This book is easy to read. There are not many characters which may confuse you. There are not many ups and downs in the process of getting the bad guys either. The only mishap to the hero is what happened to his girl friend and a FBI agent. The circumstances of this "accident" is, predictably, the result of mistaking the agent for the hero. It seems that it is a bit too easy in the round up of the drug dealers and indeed the author could put in more actions there. I would expect (1) more twists in the plot, and (2)the ending is at a climax of higher altitude.

This book just kinds of plods along. It kind of lulls you. I used it for bedtime reading and it was perfect. A lot of the action that turns out to be relevant happens off stage and you don't know about it until the very end. But that's fine it doesn't really detract from the humdrum story. The story (when it finally get around to it) is about wrapping up major international drug dealers protected by all kinds of corrupt Wash DC cops. That sounds real enough. That sounds interesting but the reality is in this book it is at best diverting. The orginal receipt was in the book as a bookmark. Someone paid $2.98 for it in the Crown Books (RIP) bargain bin in 1993. My wife got it as part of a box of books for $5 from our local library. At that price it was fine. Listen the author tried writing a couple of books 15-20 years ago and then dropped the idea. After finishing this I can see why. No one will ever read this review but what the hey. It can't hurt.

Average. I felt like this was a book in search of a story. The author certainly filled the prerequisite of putting a lot of words on the pages but unfortunately they do not do anything together. I was looking for a tight, risky book - much as the dust jacket implies, but I got something much less entertaining. The only good thing I can say is that not many of the words had over 5 letters in them.