Not read any of his before and so it was on my list to read at some point. This heavily discounted copy was on sale at Book Depository and the rest was a matter of international postage times.
Better than expected, as it does not suffer from 'impossibly expert hero" syndrome and neither 'deeply flawed bucket of angst' syndrome. Instead there's an alcoholic who falls off the wagon, makes loads of mistakes, totally misses the point half the time and then slowly works it out and luck plays a huge part of it.
So you know, like real people with real jobs and assumably cops and doctors etc...
Refeshingly normal 'hero'
Does suffer from 'single voice' and occasionally lazy exposition, but charming enough to not care as much.
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