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Watts' hero Randall Davies, although a burglar and a robber, is really a sweet guy and a sucker for women. Once again it is a sexy, if mean, woman who gets him in trouble when she demands that he dispose of her husband. But Randall finds he has to take a number, for the nasty husband has other enemies, including a mistress and her psycho boyfriend. Despite this sordid scenario, Watts writes with humor and wryness, and his crooked hero is still too decent a man to get drawn in to the darker depths his siren is calling him to.
From Publishers Weekly
Because he pitches his work into the comic-noir end of the genre pool, Philadelphia-based Watts (Cons) has been compared to the likes of Elmore Leonard. But perhaps the truer match-up would be with Chicago's Eugene Izzi, since both men write fairly uncompromising crime works and both are adept at getting deep inside the psyches of their criminal characters. Watts has a sure ear for skewered humor and weirdly angled dialogue. Here, his plot is simple enough. Sexy Philadelphia real estate agent Pam wants to get rid of her boozy, cheating dentist hubby, Jerry. Jerry is tight with his receptionist, Carmela, who isn't as Latina or as stupid as Jerry thinks. Carmela brings her lowlife boyfriend, Jesus, in to help shake down Jerry. Randall is a likable thief hired by Pam to off the hapless Jerry. The catch is that Randall, though a criminal, is probably not a killer. He's willing to sleep with Pam but would be happier sleeping with Karen, the nurse caring for Jerry's rich father, who is dying, and whose elderly wife isn't anywhere near as senile as Pam would like to think. It's all fairly comic, until Jesus abruptly graduates from mean and cowardly to mean and violent. While Jerry is relentlessly, one-dimensionally thick, the rest of the cast is allowed to spring the occasional surprise. Randall is the best, the most enigmatic and the most engaging member of the venal lot. He gets the lion's share of the funny lines and, by the end, proves himself to be the sneakiest and most resourceful.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Watts' hero Randall Davies, although a burglar and a robber, is really a sweet guy and a sucker for women. Once again it is a sexy, if mean, woman who gets him in trouble when she demands that he dispose of her husband. But Randall finds he has to take a number, for the nasty husband has other enemies, including a mistress and her psycho boyfriend. Despite this sordid scenario, Watts writes with humor and wryness, and his crooked hero is still too decent a man to get drawn in to the darker depths his siren is calling him to.
From Publishers Weekly
Because he pitches his work into the comic-noir end of the genre pool, Philadelphia-based Watts (Cons) has been compared to the likes of Elmore Leonard. But perhaps the truer match-up would be with Chicago's Eugene Izzi, since both men write fairly uncompromising crime works and both are adept at getting deep inside the psyches of their criminal characters. Watts has a sure ear for skewered humor and weirdly angled dialogue. Here, his plot is simple enough. Sexy Philadelphia real estate agent Pam wants to get rid of her boozy, cheating dentist hubby, Jerry. Jerry is tight with his receptionist, Carmela, who isn't as Latina or as stupid as Jerry thinks. Carmela brings her lowlife boyfriend, Jesus, in to help shake down Jerry. Randall is a likable thief hired by Pam to off the hapless Jerry. The catch is that Randall, though a criminal, is probably not a killer. He's willing to sleep with Pam but would be happier sleeping with Karen, the nurse caring for Jerry's rich father, who is dying, and whose elderly wife isn't anywhere near as senile as Pam would like to think. It's all fairly comic, until Jesus abruptly graduates from mean and cowardly to mean and violent. While Jerry is relentlessly, one-dimensionally thick, the rest of the cast is allowed to spring the occasional surprise. Randall is the best, the most enigmatic and the most engaging member of the venal lot. He gets the lion's share of the funny lines and, by the end, proves himself to be the sneakiest and most resourceful.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
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