When an old flame is found dead, Gun Pedersen becomes involved in the Sinners' League to get to the truth and finds that he is playing by the laws he makes himself and living through the toughest time of his life.
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Gun Pedersen, former baseball player now living in the Minnesota north woods, is painted as a rugged individualist caught up in the tangle of another hard-luck story in his fifth outing (Comeback was an Edgar-nominee). His second wife, Carol, a journalist, researches an article on prostitution at the local Native American-owned casino. An old flame of Gun's comes to town to write a screenplay based on a legal thriller written by a local lawyer; Gun agrees to see her, but, guilt-stricken, stands her up. The next morning he learns that she was raped and killed in a stolen cab. Carol brings a teenage hooker to the Pederson spread for sanctuary, but the girl drowns, perhaps on purpose. On the trail of his old friend's killer, Gun hooks into the prostitution ring being run through the casino. Enger's prose, moving from workmanlike to pretentious, gives Gun more sorrow and pain than one character, no matter how rugged, should have to bear, straining reader credibility in the process.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Gun Pedersen, onetime slugger for the Detroit Tigers, has settled into the quiet life in northern Minnesota with his wife, Carol. But the tranquillity of the setting has been permanently altered by the opening of casinos on the local Indian reservation. The tranquillity of their relationship is similarly disturbed when Diane Apple--formerly involved (well, almost involved) with Gun--turns up in Minneapolis and invites Gun to dinner. Wary of Carol's jealousy, Gun declines, and on the night they were to have met, Diane is raped and murdered. Over Carol's heated objections, Gun investigates Diane's death and finds a thread that tentatively links the crime to casino prostitution, a topic that journalist Carol is researching. The fourth entry in Enger's Edgar-nominated series is a revelation, as Gun sheds the numerous characterization clich{‚}es--ex-ballplayer, outdoorsman--that have dogged him in the past and emerges as a full-blown human being who makes moral choices. Wes Lukowsky
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