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Hardcover Big Town: A Novel of Suspense Book

ISBN: 0060177497

ISBN13: 9780060177492

Big Town: A Novel of Suspense

(Book #1 in the Jack Flippo Series)

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His marriage and legal career ruined by an affair with a drug dealer's wife, down-and-out Dallas private investigator Jack Flippo is caught up in a web of blackmail and murder at whose centre is a woman he is falling for even though she is trying to kill him.

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Great book for fans of Carl Hiaasen

This book is great, even better when you consider it is the author's 1st published work. Like my title states, fans of Carl Hiassen will probably like this book. Further proof is that Hiaasen himself compliments the book on the front cover. "Big Town" shares Hiaasen trademarks: eccentric but believable characters, a brisk pace, snappy dialogue, and more twists than a pretzel factory. To my astonishment, I may even like this Swanson book BETTER than most of Hiaasen's work for one main reason: ambiguity. In most Hiaasen books, the good guys and bad guys are pretty clear cut while in Big Town I did not know literally until the last page who was zooming who. It is a real shame Swanson's earlier books are out of print. As I have discovered, they are definitely worth seeking out.

An excellent first book . . . the others get only better

Meet Jack, the kind of detective character you'll enjoy coming back to time and time again. Jack is real, the setting is real and the plot if wholly believable. Nothing plastic, or insincere. If you like the genre, you'll really like Jack.
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