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The Blue-Haired Bombshell (Daw Books Collectors) Mass Market Paperback – December 4, 2007

by John Zakour (Author)

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Book 5 of 7 in the Zachary Nixon Johnson Series

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The world's last freelance detective, Zach Johnson, must find the assassin who murdered Sexy Sprocket and two other members of the World Council. His investigation leads him to the Moon-and to a tall, sensuous, blue-haired beauty named Lea who possesses psychic powers, and powerful ambitions...--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Series: Daw Books Collectors
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: DAW (December 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 075640455X
ISBN-13: 978-0756404550
Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 1 x 7 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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Moon Over Matter

ByDaniel E. Coomeron February 20, 2008

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The Zach Johnson series is for those of us who remember the grand days of pulp fiction in the science fiction and mystery genres. This is not, nor does it aspire to be, literature.

The most preposterous element of these stories is Johnson's survival against beings who are incredibly powerful. Some of it is due to the classic p.i. charm that women find irresistible and the rest due to luck.

After three council members are murdered, including one of the titled characters from a previous book, Zach gets caught up in the squabble between the Moonies and the Earthers. This takes him to the Moon to solve the mystery.

There are some interesting characters in these stories, particularly the A.I. HARV, but rarely are they allowed to develop much past caricatures. Zach's niece Carol is much more interesting than his fiancee. Maybe its her massive psi powers.

Anyway these are fun reads along the order of summertime adventure movies. If you don't look too deep they are very good.

As fun reading, the Zach Johnson stories are just that

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Four Stars

ByThomas Kuwaharaon January 15, 2015

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Interesting detective series,

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classic Space Opera

ByR. Siegfriedon December 5, 2008

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Go for it!! This is a classic Space Opera. Easy to read and fun. You can not go wrong.

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Can't wait for the next book!

ByStepiniton January 21, 2008

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First, DON'T read this book without reading the first 4 or you won't get it.
Another adventure with so many twists and turns, you can't put it down!
The whole series is just plain fun reading! You can actually visualize
the action as you read.

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Stopping a war of worlds can be a lot of fun

ByAmazon Customeron September 19, 2013

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The Moon is a paradise for blooming psis and the people living there think it's time to seek independence from Earth. Unfortunately the World Council disagrees and every time there is a vote concerning the issue, they vote against it. However, more and more people on Earth are rooting for the Moon's independence - the so-called moonies. When three people from the World Council die days before the new vote on independence and the crime coincides with a visit of the Head Administrator of the Moon, Zach starts investigating as he believes in the innocence of the woman the police arrested. To make things worse, Electra (Zach's girlfriend) is invited for a conference on the Moon along with the brightest minds on Earth. Zach decides to go to the Moon after Electra and takes Carol, HARV and his new talking gun GUS with him. Knowing how fate likes to treat Zach, a war of worlds is in the horizon for him to stop.

This series is so funny, I can't put these books down. Filled with action and witty comments there is no reason why you won't enjoy this book or the whole series. Regarding this story, the pace is quite fast, the mystery is well built as well as the possible suspects and all the characters are quite believable, considering the super powers they have. Reading this was a pleasure.

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Wild, warped, and hopeful...

ByMatthew Castellion April 20, 2008

Format: Mass Market Paperback

...for John Zakour as it looks like he is getting more comfortable flying solo with Zach Johnson. This book definitely qualifies as "Brain Bubble Gum", but it's fair to say that is the idea. The series trend of each ZNJ adventure being even more outrageous than the previous is sure to buckle under its own weight soon so it will be interesting to see where Zakour goes with it from there. I like the addition of GUS as it gives HARV a sidekick to riff with, often to the chagrin of ZJN, but that in turn is part of the fun. It was also nice to see Carol have more of a key role and added to the "Alas, poor Zach, we all know so much more than you" club. What I really enjoyed were the scenes where Carol, HARV, and GUS are all discussing various elements of Zach's nature, or the like, within his own brain. One can almost here ZJN saying, "Uhm, hello? I'm here too ya' know, and I can hear you!" There were many times I found myself chuckling out loud.

Zakour also does a nice job here calling back to his prior adventures, and in a very subtle manner, breaks the fourth wall once in doing so. Not in a Boston Legal/David E. Kelley subtle, but even more so, which in turn makes you feel like you're in on the joke. Of course, this only applies if you've read the earlier books in this series. If you haven't, you don't necessarily miss anything, but if you have, it makes it all just "that much" more fun.

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To the moon

ByR. Howellon August 13, 2008

Format: Mass Market Paperback

This is book 5 for our retro detective, Zachary Nixon Johnson. The moon, under the political leadership of Boris Sputnik, is once again seeking its freedom from Earth rule. As the World Council is set to meet and vote, three of its members (including Sexy Sprockets) are murdered. The mutant bodyguard of Sexy, Shannon Cannon is arrested and makes a plea to Zach to find the real murderer. Thusly, Zach is accompanied as always by supercomputer HARV and his psi secretary Carol as the rocket off to the Moon to find answers to unasked questions. The problem is, the frequency of psionic minded women are of a greater ratio on the Moon and then there are all those gorillas running about. All this and Zach gets a new super gun, GUS, from crazed scientist Randy Pool.

Yet one more welcome addition to the Zach Johnson anthology and hopefully it's not the last. Carol gets a bigger role, HARV seemed a bit out of whack, and GUS has got to go. However, there are numerous editting errors in this printing.

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Cleverly Written Humorous SciFi

BySciFiChickVINE VOICEon January 29, 2008

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Private Detective Zach Johnson finds himself in the middle of a political battle between the Moonies and Earth. And the people from the moon are willing to do anything to win their freedom from Earth, including murder. When a young woman from Earth is framed for murdering three of World Council members, Zach follows his suspects to the moon. Zach must hunt down a murderer, while constantly on the lookout for those who want him out of the way.

A wonderful mixture of humor and adventure, this science fiction mystery was a fun treat. And though this is not the first in the series, I didn't have any trouble jumping into the story. The character of Zach Johnson is extremely witty, compassionate, and a glutton for punishment. His AI, HARV, has an extremely sarcastic and arrogant personality which makes him almost Zach's opposite. The rest of the characters are pretty satirical in nature, making for a humorous look into the distant future.