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Revolution #9

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As Goldman is my all-time favourite writer, this is a high compliment indeed. I just love Abrahams' writing style. It is surpassed only by the diverse subjects he writes about. This man is an authority on many aspects of life, both high and low and he is particularly knowegable on most sports. As I am not really a sports fan, it is a mark in his favour that he is able to hold my interest here. This book also deals with campus life, about which he knows a lot and writes extremely well. His style also reminds me a lot of the late Jerome Weidman who was my (then) favourite writer. Go Peter, go, more of the same please.

Peter Abrahams books all have one thing in common, they make you want to read them again. (It is kind of like a movie that you want to watch again and again so you can catch the killer when he shows his hand early in the movie.) He has several story lines going at one time and when you get about halfway through the book you are compelled to finish! He is very good at depicting the female characters, even though he is male. I have read all but three books in the last month and I am ravenous for more.

Predictable. If you need some pulp to kills some time, and don't want to pay too much atention to what you are reading, this may be for you.

"Revolution 9" is a convulted story about a Cape Cod fisherman who is running from his past. He falls in love, and is about to be married, when a rogue FBI agent contacts him to find a person from his past. Reluctantly, he agrees, and he then has to deal with his guilt over a bombing that killed a nine year-old boy. Various characters are interweaved, and some of them die a little too convineatly. The climax is where Charlie has to rescue his fiance from a psychopath that wants revenge while keeping an eye on a nasty female cohort of his.

I liked it. I liked the protagonist. I like the fast paced narrative and true dialogue. The only problem that I had with this novel is the ending. The easy answer for ending a complicated mystery is to just kill everyone off. Yet, in order to maintain the integrity of the protagonist, all the bad guys have to kill each other off. This works, if a traditional "Mexican standoff" can be constructed in dramatic fashion, but that is not the case here. Frankly, everything was wrapped up in too neat of a package for me.