Title: Delirious and Dark
Review: Kent Harrington's "Dia de los Muertos" is a deliriously dark and nasty hard boiled crime novel with an anti-hero (DEA agent Vincent Calhoun) who is hard to like but easy to root for. Set in Tijuana and taking place over the course of little more than a day, the novel chronicles Calhoun's rapid descent into chaos and his desperate grasp for redemption as his world closes in on him from all sides. The sleazy atmosphere of Tijuana is palpable and the secondary characters are vividly rendered. It is an exciting and disturbing ride. My only quibble is that at times the plotting tested the limits of my ability to suspend disbelief, largely because it undermined the gritty and realistic atmosphere that pervaded the novel as a whole. After reading this I will be searching out more of Harrington's work.
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