Title: Beg to Differ
Product review: Future film director Bergman has an interesting idea here but completely fumbles it as New York dick Jack LeVine travels east to help an old friend and stumbles onto the beginnings of the Blacklist. Great idea, but LeVine's smug, "believably hard-boiled" narration is incredibly lame-o. The Hollywood characters are reasonably well-done, but LeVine is never believable, just ridiculous. Try to imagine "The Sun Also Rises" being narrated by a private eye. Then move on to some other book!
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