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Title: Fiften minutes of fame.
Review: Musical entrepreneur Barney Loomis discovers Tamar, a gorgeous looking Mexican-Russian girl with the voice of an angel and a body that would stop men in their tracks. He plans a spectacular introduction of her first hit song accompanied by a controversial video of her being mock raped by a black dancer, dressed as a mythical beast, on a luxury motor launch on the river. Three masked figures appear and drag Tamar away to a waiting speed boat in front of a stunned audience. A phone call demanding $250,000 in ransom is made to Loomis's office and so the local police from the 87th precinct and the FBI are called in. The pace is cracking and the dialogue is authentic sounding as plots are laid by the baddies and plans are made for Tamar's rescue by the cops. It's a fast read, using characters that Mr.McBain has introduced before and, even though I've never before seen some of the words used by the author, most readers would enjoy it.
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