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This funny, freaky, tender little caper novel about a couple of merry pranksters is a true original. (That doesn't mean it's great, just original.) It's not only unique, but amusing as well, although in places it reads like the stoned meanderings of a computer nerd with an X-Files addiction. If one of those dopey geniuses who do all the data mining for agents Mulder and Scully could write, this is what he'd come up with.

Virginia and Willis, a happily married young pair of cybersleuths, have stumbled on a computer program that somehow identifies the folks everyone loves to hate-- the petty tyrants, the rumormongers, the snoops, the bitter but not (yet) damned. Then they scare these mean and nasty but otherwise ordinary people into changing their ways. But when they set out to "rehabilitate" an ice cream store owner who cheats little kids out of full scoops and find out she's been murdered for real, they discover that the joke's on them. Someone's using the same program, has beaten them to their target, and is playing for real. This so- called S-Killer has driven several otherwise sensible FBI agents to madness and murder in the course of their efforts to find him. And now the S-Killer is stalking Virginia and Willis in a high-stakes game of double-dealing that ends in a "memory restoration" sanitarium in New Jersey.

This is an implausible, improbable, and highly entertaining tale, just right for that conspiracy theorist with a deranged sense of what's funny who happens to be on your gift list. Failing that, it's a lively read for anyone willing to suspend disbelief who's facing a summer of X-Files reruns. It will help if they share the author's fondness for young lovers, stupid tricks, and weird goings-on, all seasoned with a healthy dose of very dark humor and a suitably happy-ever-after ending. --Jane Adams

From Publishers Weekly
As readers of his two previous mysteries (1998's The Double, 1999's Essential Saltes) know, Webb likes to whip up murder, humor and sex into a heady froth. His latest starts out with a similar blend of ingredients and for more than half its length seems destined to be a memorably enjoyable outing. A married coupleDWillis and Virginia SpencerDget their kicks by punishing wicked people in their native Texas, using carefully staged scenes of vengeance to frighten them almost to death. One such prank turns lethal when the Spencers cross paths with a legendary serial killerDthe same man who developed the secret computer program that helps them target their victims. Also in the mix are two FBI agentsDone ex and one currentDobsessed with finding the serial killer. So far, so noirDespecially when the killer turns out to be a sad and fragile old gentleman. But things begin to sag when Webb adds one ingredient too many: a mysterious woman who has hired the ex-FBI guy to bring her the head of a longtime quarry. (Jan. 6)
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