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Title: Good, slightly flawed
Review: A good read indeed. But there's some flaws, the inevitable trappings of a mass market paperback original: obvious padding to make the book thicker, contrived "odd" characters always found in crime thrillers (a la Lynch or Tarrantino). In fact, this book was similar in vein and scope to Michael hemmingson's WILD TURKEY -- both are set in San Diego, there's a murder, there's over-sexed villianesses, and there are Las Vegas scenes. Hemmingson and Taylor are a lot alike, and they've been publsihed in a lot of the same little mags and anthologies so that I am beginning to wonder if one isn't the pen name for the other? .
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