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Title: Morris runs out of gas third time around.
Review: Bob Morris falls a bit flat in this third of the Zack Chasteen series. Missing are the bits of local history and culture that give a tropic mystery its flavor, and in its place is a frenetic pacing (there must have been a dozen chapters of two pages or less) along a workmanlike plot (the villain is obvious halfway through the book) that still leaves some final questions unanswered. Morris seems to have run out of ways to develop Zack and Boggy as characters, substituting Zack's cynical put downs of Boggy's mysticism for any real development of their relationship. In summary, a decent read on the beach or in the airport, but a weaker cousin of the first two books, which had the energy and novelty of a really promising new franchise. Hopefully No. 4 in the series will recapture the magic of No. 1.
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