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adam_mcphee's Reviews (2.87k)
Really liked it. Pulp fiction set in the condohell of Toronto. A lot of shady characters you can picture existing: a crooked cop, shady masseuse, drug dealer mom on house arrest, bikers relocating from Montreal and an immigrant artist turned forger. The ending is a bit too quick, but otherwise a great novel. Will definitely read more from this author.
Read this because I heard the protagonist is supposed to be a professor concerned with The Song of Roland, one of my favourites. There's not much of it in the book, though. There's an interesting premise and I like that the spy is permanently broke and is always looked down on by the snooty British as a foreigner. Makes for a contrast to the sort of thing you expect from a spy novel after Ian Fleming. On the other hand, the action is boring and none of the secondary characters feel real enough for you to care about them.
*deadpan face betrayed by a smirk* Ladies and gentleman, this book is for the birds!
It's that one issue of Batman that Morrison did, where he gets injected with 'weapons grade crystal meth' and hallucinates a friend that only he can see, but now it's dark and grim and now it's an unrelated creator-owned miniseries starring an ex-cop with a death wish.