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Title: Stick to kids and campaigns, Eric....
Review: Not a very good mystery. There is little rapport with any of the characters, including Sam McCall. The background, which is one of political campaigns, might possibly be interesting if not so dry and specialized as it is in this book. The environmental issues are reduced to the not-so-burning-question of 'will the yellow-backed minnow survive as a species', and the obvious answer is, "who cares?". The motive for murder is revealed by artifice: a newspaper story quoted in the last chapter. And the prose is not deathless, but dead--and filled with needless typographical errors. Consider, for instance, this quote: "Without even a moment's hesitation, I raised my fun (sic) and fired." (p. 243)Even on a snowy and boring Saturday afternoon, this is a novel to be missed.
