Title: A big disappointment
Product review: James Lee Burke's thrillers, whether they revolve around Dave Robicheaux or Billy Bob Holland, are written to an unvarying formula: a tightly-wound hero convinced of his own morality encounters flawed and self-destructive people from his past who involve him in a struggle with evil forces. Though the hero attempts to ward off trouble by self-righteous rudeness to all around him, he is inevitably drawn into the vortex that leads to a deadly redemption for the figure from the past and a dose of rueful wisdom for our hero. Though this formula has worked for him before, Burke goes to the well once too often in his latest novel."In the Moon of Red Ponies" was clearly written in some haste with little concern for plot. The author's anger at politicians and corporations makes this effort more like an eco-terrorist's recruitment tract than a novel that cres about its readers. Pity.
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