The Deputy by Victor GischlerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Part-time sheriff's Deputy Toby Sawyer gives new meaning to the word "hapless." He's given the simple task of keeping his eye on the body of a local tough who turns up murdered. Somehow, he manages to botch even that. His efforts to set his mistake right send him lurching from one life-threatening situation to another, uncovering more and more secrets and corruption with every lurch.
Let's face it, Jack Reacher this guy ain't. But Victor Gischler keeps the action moving so fast, and makes the bad guys so bad, that you end up pulling for the poor schmuck with the tin badge pinned to his Weezer t-shirt.
Fast-paced, tightly plotted, and darkly funny, this is Gischler's best book since his debut, GUN MONKEYS.
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2 comments:
Sweet. This is on my Christmas List, and I loved GUN MONKEYS. Sounds like a win-win for me.
I read this when it came out. Loveed it. I'll read pretty much anything that Gischler writes.
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