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A review by alexcarbonneau
The Upper Hand by Johnny Shaw
4.0
My god is Johnny Shaw a hell of a storyteller.
Think Ocean's Eleven meets Matchstick men. Only with dumber people.
A conmen/women comedy where the forthright repartee of the 3 main characters (The Uckers Brothers and sister) is only matched by their tunnel vision in a world where everyone wants to con them out of something.
I went through the whole novel in one sitting, which doesn't happen often given my slow reading habits and lack of time, but to use an old and overdone cliché, The Upper Hand is a hard one to put down.
For the fans of the genre, there's also a few easter eggs, from characters named Beetner and Lauden, to the Mensa edition of playboy, to the Booby Trap in Mississippi and a few more i'm not telling you about, or I didn't catch.
I discovered Shaw with Big Maria a few weeks ago and I'm just glad that I've got a couple more novels of him to go. The Upper Hand will leave the fans that have already read the whole Shaw catalogue waiting for more. Give the people what they want, damnit !!
Think Ocean's Eleven meets Matchstick men. Only with dumber people.
A conmen/women comedy where the forthright repartee of the 3 main characters (The Uckers Brothers and sister) is only matched by their tunnel vision in a world where everyone wants to con them out of something.
I went through the whole novel in one sitting, which doesn't happen often given my slow reading habits and lack of time, but to use an old and overdone cliché, The Upper Hand is a hard one to put down.
For the fans of the genre, there's also a few easter eggs, from characters named Beetner and Lauden, to the Mensa edition of playboy, to the Booby Trap in Mississippi and a few more i'm not telling you about, or I didn't catch.
I discovered Shaw with Big Maria a few weeks ago and I'm just glad that I've got a couple more novels of him to go. The Upper Hand will leave the fans that have already read the whole Shaw catalogue waiting for more. Give the people what they want, damnit !!