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Title: As always, with the Michael Gruber books, the characters are wonderful
Review: Michael Gruber co-wrote (or perhaps completely wrote) Tanenbaum's first 15 books in this series, and I love them all, esp. this one. His characters have almost a Dickensian vividness. El Chivato, the hired killer who thinks Lucy Karp is channeling his sainted mother, Lucy, who speaks Vietnamese with a "slangy Saigon accent", Marlene who sings a French lullaby to her daughter to allow her to escape El Chivato--they are all deeply comic and wonderful.I think the Arabs get a little confusing, and there are so many killings they start to have a comic book lack of seriousness, but the plot problems pale beside the wonderful fun of the characters. I so wish Tanenbaum and Gruber would get back together and start writing more books in this series. I can't read the recent ones, as all life has been taken out of the characters and the plots are just too absurd and chilling.
