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Title: The novel is a dud.
Review: I bought this book after reading an ecstatic review praising it as "an absolute gut-buster." Although there are a (very) few funny moments in the novel (mainly in the beginning), most of the story is pretty stale. The author tries to punch up the plot with various action sequences: someone pulling a gun on someone, scaling a building, etc. Unfortunately, these scenes don't work as action or comedy and just bog down the story. The author tries to create humor by featuring wacky groups of characters: a Jamaican drug gang, a Mexican drug gang, black muslims, redneck vets. Unfortunately, he doesn't do anything very interesting with them.I really wanted to like this novel. But it is, as General Haversham might put it, "a crashing bore."
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