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From Publishers Weekly
Crisis management guru Dezenhall packs his second political mystery (after 2003's Jackie Disaster) with lots of action and plenty of colorful characters, like pollster Jonah Eastman, whose family connections to gangsters make it hard for him to get respectable work. Jonah is working for the Republican governor of New Jersey, Gardner Rothman, aka Rebound because of his stint with the Philadelphia 76ers. Rebound, who likes to hold meetings while he's sitting on the toilet, is running for a U.S. Senate seat and has a large lead in the polls. Yet he's begun acting as though he expects a bombshell to explode at any moment, and it's up to Jonah and Chief Willie Thundercloud, a onetime pro wrestler who now does damage control for several shady enterprises, to find out why. Dezenhall can write hilarious and brilliant descriptions, and can restate the obvious in fresh ways. "That Tappo's activities were illegal was of no matter because we were now living in the Arthur Andersen age of disclosure, where 'trust' and 'empowerment' in criminal endeavors were key to making the mob an instrument of social equity," Jonah says of a mobster known as Tappo the Clown. Sharp writing like that and some lively, unexpected plotting go a long way to making up for an excess of cute nicknames.
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From Booklist
This sequel to Money Wanders (2002) finds political consultant and damage-control expert Jonah Eastman working for the governor of New Jersey, Gardner "Rebound" Rothman. Up for reelection, Rebound, a family values Republican, is comfortably ahead in the polls, but he is putting pressure on Jonah to dig up as much dirt on his opponent as he can find. Why is the governor acting like he is about to lose, when he is 15 points ahead of his opponent? What is he hiding? And how much trouble is Jonah going to get in when he starts looking for answers? Like Money Wanders, this novel features deft comedy mixed with realistic characters and plenty of behind-the-scenes political shenanigans (like his protagonist, Dezenhall is a noted political consultant and damage-control expert). There is a little Ross Thomas in the way Dezenhall mixes thriller plot elements with political satire, but there's also an over-the-top absurdity here that will appeal to fans of Carl Hiaasen and, especially, Tim Dorsey's very similar Orange Crush (2001). David Pitt
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Crisis management guru Dezenhall packs his second political mystery (after 2003's Jackie Disaster) with lots of action and plenty of colorful characters, like pollster Jonah Eastman, whose family connections to gangsters make it hard for him to get respectable work. Jonah is working for the Republican governor of New Jersey, Gardner Rothman, aka Rebound because of his stint with the Philadelphia 76ers. Rebound, who likes to hold meetings while he's sitting on the toilet, is running for a U.S. Senate seat and has a large lead in the polls. Yet he's begun acting as though he expects a bombshell to explode at any moment, and it's up to Jonah and Chief Willie Thundercloud, a onetime pro wrestler who now does damage control for several shady enterprises, to find out why. Dezenhall can write hilarious and brilliant descriptions, and can restate the obvious in fresh ways. "That Tappo's activities were illegal was of no matter because we were now living in the Arthur Andersen age of disclosure, where 'trust' and 'empowerment' in criminal endeavors were key to making the mob an instrument of social equity," Jonah says of a mobster known as Tappo the Clown. Sharp writing like that and some lively, unexpected plotting go a long way to making up for an excess of cute nicknames.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
This sequel to Money Wanders (2002) finds political consultant and damage-control expert Jonah Eastman working for the governor of New Jersey, Gardner "Rebound" Rothman. Up for reelection, Rebound, a family values Republican, is comfortably ahead in the polls, but he is putting pressure on Jonah to dig up as much dirt on his opponent as he can find. Why is the governor acting like he is about to lose, when he is 15 points ahead of his opponent? What is he hiding? And how much trouble is Jonah going to get in when he starts looking for answers? Like Money Wanders, this novel features deft comedy mixed with realistic characters and plenty of behind-the-scenes political shenanigans (like his protagonist, Dezenhall is a noted political consultant and damage-control expert). There is a little Ross Thomas in the way Dezenhall mixes thriller plot elements with political satire, but there's also an over-the-top absurdity here that will appeal to fans of Carl Hiaasen and, especially, Tim Dorsey's very similar Orange Crush (2001). David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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