| SF Reviews by Aaron M. Renn | By Author - By Title - By Date Reviewed |
Conclusion: Worth Reading.
Cook's Garrett Files series tells both noirish dectective tales and parodies of them at the same time. This latest installment has Garrett, your classic hard boiled private investigator, looking for someone who's trying to extort money out of the Max Weider brewery in the gritty urban fantasy land of TunFaire. Along the way he runs into a blizzard of other characters and subplots, all somehow linked. There are a lot of other books in this series that I haven't read, so the blur of characters whizzing by in Faded Steel Heat was hard to keep track of. Nevertheless, it's possible to read and understand this book without having read any of the other numerous books in the series. (I haven't). There's nothing epic or important going on here, just your basic detective story. Luckily it's a reasonably (if not overwhelmingly) entertaining one.
%A Cook, Glen %T Faded Steel Heat %S Garret P.I. Files %I New American Library/Roc %D 1999-06 (original publication 1999-6) %G ISBN 0-451-45479-0 %P 356 pp. %0 mass market paperback, US$6.99
Reviewed on 1999-07-07
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