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August riordan comes out of retirement to battle an old nemesis who has a frightening plan. Riordan enlists the help of a former aircraft engineer named ray. Together they take on the winemaker, who has sinister plans for that technology. Winnie and r... Read More
The ending is ragged, open-ended and real. August riordan is a flawed character in the mold of hammett's continental op or chandler's philip marlowe. Reviews of earlier books have said that the series pays homage to hammett and chandler.
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I’ve only read one other in the august riordan series
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It’s hard to get much lower than winnie’s state of mind in the opening sentence “when she got to san francisco and found that august riordan wasn’t there she decided to kill herself
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If she jumps from the golden gate she’s almost certain she’ll feel nothing at all
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In fact winnie has no feeling below her neck
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The ‘lawn’ in front consisted of a semicircle of dirt that extended out from the dented aluminum skirt of the trailer
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River rocks weeds and a halfburied truck tire were the only things that broke the chalklike surface of the dry desert soil