The Blue-Haired Bombshell

by John Zakour and Lawrence Ganem

Book Overview

The world's last freelance detective, Zach Johnson, must find the assassin who murdered Sexy Sprocket and two other members of the World Council. His investigation leads him to the Moon-and to a tall,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075640455X
• ISBN13: 9780756404550
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

classic Space Opera

Go for it!! This is a classic Space Opera. Easy to read and fun. You can not go wrong.

Wild, warped, and hopeful...

...for John Zakour as it looks like he is getting more comfortable flying solo with Zach Johnson. This book definitely qualifies as "Brain Bubble Gum", but it's fair to say that is the idea. The series trend of each ZNJ adventure being even more outrageous than the previous is sure to buckle under its own weight soon so it will be interesting to see where Zakour goes with it from there. I like the addition of GUS as it gives HARV a sidekick to riff with, often to the chagrin of ZJN, but that in turn is part of the fun. It was also nice to see Carol have more of a key role and added to the "Alas, poor Zach, we all know so much more than you" club. What I really enjoyed were the scenes where Carol, HARV, and GUS are all discussing various elements of Zach's nature, or the like, within his own brain. One can almost here ZJN saying, "Uhm, hello? I'm here too ya' know, and I can hear you!" There were many times I found myself chuckling out loud. Zakour also does a nice job here calling back to his prior adventures, and in a very subtle manner, breaks the fourth wall once in doing so. Not in a Boston Legal/David E. Kelley subtle, but even more so, which in turn makes you feel like you're in on the joke. Of course, this only applies if you've read the earlier books in this series. If you haven't, you don't necessarily miss anything, but if you have, it makes it all just "that much" more fun.

Cleverly Written Humorous SciFi

Private Detective Zach Johnson finds himself in the middle of a political battle between the Moonies and Earth. And the people from the moon are willing to do anything to win their freedom from Earth, including murder. When a young woman from Earth is framed for murdering three of World Council members, Zach follows his suspects to the moon. Zach must hunt down a murderer, while constantly on the lookout for those who want him out of the way. A wonderful mixture of humor and adventure, this science fiction mystery was a fun treat. And though this is not the first in the series, I didn't have any trouble jumping into the story. The character of Zach Johnson is extremely witty, compassionate, and a glutton for punishment. His AI, HARV, has an extremely sarcastic and arrogant personality which makes him almost Zach's opposite. The rest of the characters are pretty satirical in nature, making for a humorous look into the distant future.

Can't wait for the next book!

First, DON'T read this book without reading the first 4 or you won't get it. Another adventure with so many twists and turns, you can't put it down! The whole series is just plain fun reading! You can actually visualize the action as you read.

amusing satire of Noir fantasy science fiction

As in the previous century, being an earthbound politician in 2057 (CHECK date) has always had plenty of rewards with very few negatives. Politicians live on pork refusing to even throw away leftovers. That is until now. Someone obviously has decided to vote politicians out of office using bullets instead of a ballet box. Private investigator Zachary Johnson believes the killer's motive is tied to a failed movement for independence by the citizens of the moon. Thus he believes the leader of the Moon and the strongest supporter of the free moon scenario Boris Sputnik is behind the killings as he has plenty to gain politically and financially (oxymoron - ever hear of a poverty stricken politician in Congress or the White House) if the earth leaders change their mind. As he probes Sputnik's revolutionary activity, the last private investigator on earth finds his efforts to uncover the identity of the assassin vetoed by bioengineered gorillas and distracted by a sexy Blue-Haired Bombshell. Zach is back with this amusing satire of Noir fantasy science fiction. As always when Zach works a case, he has a beautiful bombshell with different colored hair to interrupt his whodunit musings with more important matters of a sexual nature. The mystery is fun to follow as Zach deals with elves, goons, Sputnik, politicians, and of course THE BLUE HAIRED BOMBSHELL. John Zakour spoofs the DC insiders with this entertaining outsider futuristic murder mystery. Harriet Klausner