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Date Posted: 16:44:00 09/07/03 Sun
Author: Mt. healthy mountaineer, your most intrepediest reviewer
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ANHOW Review of Books: "Who In Hell is Wanda Fuca" by G.M. Ford

Genre: detective
Published: 1995 by Avon

First things first - Juan de Fuca is a strait between Northwest Washington and VAncouver Island. The book gets its name because a character mistakes the reference for a woman named Wanda Fuca.

G.M. Ford (great name, if you know cars - but even worse, his real name is Gerald Ford) writes a fun, gritty detective novel with an offbeat protagonist. He's not a former cop, he's mostly a guy who can't do anything else but be nosy. He has a team of homeless sidekicks that he uses to surveil his quarry - since no one notices the homeless anyway.

Great book. It concerns a mafia princess who has joined up with a group of eco-terrorists. Our hero, Leo Waterman, is supposed to keep her out of trouble and try to get her away from the ecp-terrorists. However, the end was way too violent and extravegantly full of torture and cruelty than the rest of the book had been - it was a totally different note and seemed odd. Plus, Ford brings in characters at the end that had been very minor at the beginning of the book and doesn't remind the readers why they should be familiar names (I find it annoying to have to flip through the front of the book to find the names of the people involved in the climax just to remind myself who is trying to kill the detective and why).

A better way to do it is to simply remind the reader who the supporting characters are. The book I'm reading now continuosly refers to the characters by name and their job and how they are connected to the protagonist. Its mighty helpful since I don't want to have to take notes just to read a paperback detective story.

I give this book a "B" - it had an A until the jangling end of the book.

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